I used to use Neovim until I got tired of it and switched to Helix. I tried Emacs for a bit but turns out that Helix does everything I need it to do without any extra configuration.
And of course I use
caps:swapescapebecause I am not reaching all the way to the Escape key all the time.So far it hasn’t really happened to me yet. I tried configuring neovim, but since i’m still a noob at programming, it felt like it didn’t make much sense to put so much effort into configuring an editor, however i did want something terminal based. So instead i use helix now. Already has the lsp stuff baked in, and my config is just a few lines of toml.
One of my year goals is to change from vsc to vim hehe
Use micro after everyone makes fun of you for using nano
Nano os shit. Micro is fine. Vim is good. Helix is peak.
helix is good, but kakoune is where all the fun happens
Lmao
Good, good! You’re on the right way! But remember, there is a world outside your Emacs, don’t forget about it.
You mean Vim?
Surely, you mistyped neovim?
I have indeed
*nixvim
The problem with Emacs is that it sucks but there is nothing better, and you are getting stuck with it forever. Welcome!
I keep thinking that as I use vim, I’ll feel the need to learn more commands, but I hardly do anything except:
- q, wq, or q!, quit with or without saving
- i, insert
- set:paste, preserves spacing
- Shift-insert, pastes if shift-ctrl-v doesn’t work
- / , search for a string (iirc, don’t really need it much).
What are your vim GOTOs?
My most used commands are also just the classics
cw - delete the next word amd enter insert mode
dd - delete line
gg - go to first line
G - go to last line
:s/searchphrase/replacephrase - search and replace
And a couple of visual mode commands do cut and paste blocks or comment out blocks of code
These look real useful, especially :cw
Thanks!
To build on cw:
ciw works when the cursor is anywhere in the word
ci( to delete everything between brackets and enter insert mode. Also ci" ciW or whatever
If editor-specific binds count, then g-. is my favorite in Zed.
m-x scornful-elder-mode
Say goodbye to your pinkie
Emacs and (Neo)Vim are a bit too overwhelming for me. I’ve tried Neovim for a relatively long time, but I felt kind of overloaded with the vast amount of features and plugins it has. I’ve tried Emacs a bit, but its complexity always scared me (not to mention it uses its own version of Lisp, a language that is notorious for its ability of creating new language features on the fly, hence even more complexity). I’ve been using Helix, and I couldn’t be happier. I’ve realized that I don’t really care much about editor customization, and that what I was looking for was just a cool modal editor with some useful features (such as file picker, LSP, tree-sitter, multiple cursors, …). The keybinds are also easier to grasp, as fewer of them feel arbitrary compared to Vim. In Vim and Emacs, it feels like you can do everything, while in Helix, it feels more like you can do everything the developers think that might be useful for you. Who knows, maybe I’ll try again Emacs and (Neo)Vim again in the far future, but I don’t feel like it for now.
May I recommend Helix? It’s a modal editor like vim, but has a better out of the box experience, better discoverability for commands, and uses an easier to understand select->command syntax.
Just started using helix a few months ago and I’m in love. The movement took a second to get used to but its super efficient once you get the hang of it. I highly recommend it, especially if you’re doing any kind of programming or sysadmin work and you hate gui ides.
I may be crazy, but for regular text file, VIM is usually my go to. But, because of tag auto completion Bluefish has been my HMTL/CSS editor for a while. Most other things are in VIM. Bash? VIM. Python? VIM. C? Trash bin! Did not like the C class I took last quarter!
Exception being things like .docx or .odt files that have no business being opened in VIM.
It’s unfortunate that your experience with C wasn’t a good one. imo it’s a cool language, even if it may be overshadowed by languages that are more intuitive to use.
… Do people open docx and odt files in VIM? Fuckin why?
IDK if people do, but I’d assume there are some people would just to avoid the bloat of having office suite software.
Save yourself the trouble and just skip ahead: real programmers use butterflies
Good ol’ C-x M-c M-butterfly
You really should use vim though.
No (I already somewhat learned Emacs, I ain’t gonna learn something new)
That’s how the meme goes though. Anytime someone suggests, says something positive about one of vim or emacs, the response should be that they should use the other. 😄
It’s an almost 40-year-old flame war.
Me:
Go, nano!
I even tried micro.
me want nano. nano edit important file pulsar can’t. dolphin angry if me use like administrator.
micro is nice, I’ve been using it more for the past few months
And for me, there was no productivity penalty when switching from VSCode, since I didn’t have to learn all new keybinds (still lacks a bit of multicursor, tho)
That wikipedia article is pure comedy gold
Glad to lighten up the day!
nvim
ftfy
emacs kicks ass
It becomes a tool for doing whatever you are doing at the moment.
I think the beauty of Emacs is not that it gives you a text editor, but that it gives you a lisp environment.
