Nvim gang

What's that at the end of your comment? Is that how you close vim??

I use doom emacs and have to say, it takes everything that I like about vim and adds to emacs, plus a lot of useful features that i would have to install myself otherwise that can be enable by just uncommenting a feel lines in the config file.

It's can feel a bit bloated at first but allows me to have the perfect IDE (for me at least) in a matter of minutes.

And the best of all is that I don't need to use the emacs keybinds if I don't wanna (and I don't).

If you try emacs again, try evil mode. It adds vi bindings.

Emacs keybinds are fine, used them for some years. But once I tried modal bindings I never wanted to go back, "key-chords" just add strain.

Fortunately emacs has many options for modal keybindings, I prefer meow over vim personally

Go sit in a corner and think about what you've done

The reason is b/c vim predates GUIs. Yes, as in all of them:-D. (Or rather, its predecessor vi did and vim unlike others very much remained true to its origins)

Even now, there are many places e.g. when doing server maintenance or accessing a compute cluster via SSH, sometimes you do not have a handy GUI environment accessible, at which point your choices become extremely limited, and it helps that vim has been installed on every Unix-i/Linux-ish machine since the 80s.

GUIs are superior, ofc, when they work. On a daily basis I even use a GUI for vim - MacVim (for Windows there used to be Cream but I am very out of date there), and there is always gVim. I could use something else but I am familiar with vim and it is EXTREMELY powerful - e.g. I could indent 100,000 lines in the middle of a file without having to manually select all of them at once first, or better still only do the indentation based on matching a pattern.

It is very advanced, and thus not for everyone, and even those of us that use it often prefer the GUI way for simple tasks like select a contiguous block of 5 lines, but it offers the benefit that it works in the widest possible number of scenarios - e.g. more than nano. emacs does too, except its commands are so configurable that the X-windows GUI number 1, X-windows GUI number 2, and command-line versions all use entirely different shortcuts, so a cheat sheet would not help. vim offers consistency that, afaik, is absolutely unmatched anywhere.

Now you know:-).

I was shoved into Linux by a nearly dead HPC expert who was definitely angry about the advent of electricity.

Wasn't given any indication of a text editor, I ran across vim for one reason or another and enjoyed his Palpatine-like reaction from seeing me using vim enough to keep using it. And if you're enjoying something, why not

But yeah, it has some drawbacks lol

You can change shortcuts

..but soon hopefully, already my second in command alongside VSCodium

Neovim is the pinnacle of editing. I have seen the light.

By having no plugin support or something?

Helix is great except when you switch to vim for whatever reason and everything is backwards