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I can do all of that more efficiently in vim because the refactoring tools are way more powerful, and everything is macro-able.

> High-level language tooling like refactoring and static analysis are way, way more important for medium+ size projects productivity. There is way too much to talk about in a single post, but stuff like macros, showing multiple files at once, (tabs is not the natural way of doing things in vim), viewing multiple parts of the same file at once the native integration with the terminal (just ctrl-x to go back to the terminal and fg back to vim, or execute any command with :! ) are great for productivity when you have to deal with multiple tools.

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Yes I do code, everyday and full time, and vim absolutely increased my focus and productivity. > I see people talking about using vim like some other talk about going to the gym. It's installed pretty much everywhere, you just have to run vimtutor. Vim comes with a tutorial that teaches all the basics from inside vim. If it's such a great tool, why did no one see fit making it progressively learnable from within the tool itself? > There is no reason in 2021 for to have such terrible discoverability. Micro fills a niche for me where I don't want to leave the terminal and just need to edit a few lines. But hey at least I can use it over an ssh connection (gotta transport all of my config first!), as if sshfs is not a thing, not that my work load is all cloud containers so I rarely ssh at all anyways. I have to add a ton of plugins to get anything approaching the experience of Pycharm and now it's just as slow, the auto completion is worse, and it looks like ass. Unlike Alfred workflows, the macros are trapped in vim. I don't have a ton of things to automate that I cant do in Alfred and my keyboard has over 1000 possible slots for keys and macros, more than I could ever use. My moonlander keyboard already gives me directional movement on home keys. So first off I use Dvorak so I have to switch tons of the bindings so I can use reference layouts. I forced myself to use it for two weeks just to see what the fuss is all about and try to push through any bias. I wish people would stop treating vi like it's God's gift to every programmer on earth. Otherwise, I like the approach and the helpful commands for the user! It is definitely nice to be able to stay in a terminal instead of using a GUI to edit. Or if I'm searching over thousands of logs to use ripgrep and just pipe in whatever that way since it can search 10GB in a few seconds with moderate sized regex. I use Sublime Text because it uses Python and makes this relatively easy.

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I'm not sure if search/replace pipelines are going to be easy to code in this manner or efficient enough to be worth it. This is something I use extensively.įor most of my use cases, this would require I hack together a native search in the application, and then pipe the buffer to Lua for post-processing. One major shortcoming is that it doesn't have a true regex engine. It's not really known for it's text processing abilities. With that in mind, I do see one shortcoming in the choice of Lua as a scripting language. This usually means I write a lot of regex for searching. Typically my main use for text editors is for log analysis (mainly Sublime Text). I've checked this out, and I like what I see so far.

My workflows tend to use SSH all over the place to make remote access transparent.Īs another commenter noted, this is a good alternative to Nano (I too need to learn Vim). While PowerShell is, well, powerful and nowadays there's at least OpenSSH for for secure and convenient remote access, unfortunately it's rarely installed and PowerShell over SSH is still very janky and even when it's there, many things assume a GUI, which is anything but convenient to me.

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Therefore I struggle with administering Windows because there is no useful editor by default when you use it remotely over the console, leading to a lot of friction to just 'browsing around' on a remote Windows machine, and most of the time installing what I need is not an option due to the lack of a default, trusted package manager. GUI configuration makes changes easy, but change management extremely difficult, which is not a good combination.

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As someone who's used to Linux and other UNIXy systems, the idea of having and using GUI software on servers is. I have the same feeling of limitation when using Windows.