I use vim btw

  • bh11235@infosec.pub
    18·
    1 year ago

    To me vim’s main strengths are

    • It delivers the same OK-ish experience no matter what file type or language I’m dealing with. Yeah it’ll never be as good as a dedicated Python IDE for writing Python, but I’d rather know vim than 5 different IDEs for Python, YAML, Dockerfiles, Rust, Latex, whatever I need to deal with today.
    • It just edits files and doesn’t hide internal state, intermediate files, etc to make my life ‘simpler’ (notepad is the same, so I guess this is more of a strength vs IDEs). When an IDE fails to align all of its internal moving parts just right to compile a project I know I’m in for an hour of figuring out which checkbox needs to be unticked in what sub-sub-sub-sub-submenu, I like it much better to have a “flat” experience of invoking a command line and getting an error message directly from the tool I am invoking.
    • 20dd to delete 20 lines, that’s very neat.
    • tool@r.rosettast0ned.com
      5·
      1 year ago

      Quick editing for me is in vim. Anything else is in Visual Studio Code. Which I have set up with vim keybindings.

    • Dohnakun@lemmy.fmhy.mlB
      4·
      1 year ago

      I just read a micro vs. nano. But each point in favor of micro was “i have that already in nano”. Syntax highlighting, status bar with col/line, undo/redo, even mouse support.

      • Netto Hikari@social.fossware.space
        3·
        1 year ago

        I like both. But many people don’t even realize that nano has quite a lot of configuration options. To me, they’re text editors, not code editors. For code, I use VSCode (or “code”, the FOSS variant).

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    9·
    1 year ago

    Why would I use Notepad? I’d have to install it first. Does it even have a Linux version or would I have to use Wine? This meme is giving me headaches.

  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    1 year ago

    Seems like the right side should be classic terminal tools like ed. Or any other cat/echo/etc where you change the contents of the file without opening it (or all of it) directly.

    • Gork@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      You would think that Microsoft would have implemented better functionally by now. Yeah they had WordPad but that sucked too.

      Like, c’mon, allow me to alt-highlight blocks of text already.

  • alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org
    72·
    1 year ago

    Every editor has its place but this meme would make more sense with any IDE (vscode, eclipse, intellij) than notepad

    • dog@suppo.fi
      51·
      1 year ago

      Nah, IDE’s go in the top bar, big brain is still notepad and alikes.

      • hedgehog@ttrpg.network
        1·
        1 year ago

        Along that line of thought, you could do

        • “text editor” (meaning Notepad, Nano, etc) on the left,
        • IDE in the center,
        • and “text editor” (meaning Vim, Emacs, VSCode, Sublime, etc.) on the right
    • simple@lemmy.mywire.xyz
      22·
      1 year ago

      Agreed.

      I once worked on a team in a company who had to ssh into a server and do all the development work on that server. So all we could use was either vim or emacs. I had my vim decked out with all the plugins and customizations, and it was fine.

      But after you get back to using an IDE (especially an IDE with a vim plugin), it’s hard to go back

      • priapus@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 year ago

        In my experience, once you’ve used any text editor with an LSP implementation it’s hard to go back to an IDE