I am a vscodium user who has begun to get increasingly frustrated over lack of commands to do some simple things.
So, as a longtime GNU/Linux user, who only knew basic commands to survive in vim, I decided to change my habits.
installed flavours of neovim(lunarvim, nvchad, and astronvim, in that order) and started tinerking. then switched to kick start.nvim.
on Android, I’m using plain neovim since there seems to be some missing lib for mason, the neovim package manager.
passing away of Bram Moolenaar has made me accelerate faster towards the day where my machine would be clean of any electron bloat.
I’m still very much a novice, and continue using codium in office, but I am committed to using neovim as I believe it’s truly a great editor(second to Emacs, of course).
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famous still of Nicholas cage with his eyes closed, smiling as his hair flow.
above it is the text that reads, ‘learning about ci" in vim.’
I love vim and vim based editors.
I used to use stock Vim but recently I’ve started using Helix which is like a more user friendly version of vim (copying to clipboard is easy) and I’m loving it!
wow, good to know that there are still terminal-based text editors being developed.
I’ll surely try it.
Helix is pretty cool, I think the Lemmy devs use it too.
I use it because it’s purple and I like purple.
Helix’s editing model is much more preferable to vim’s for me but the editor is not at all hackable so I can’t daily drive it yet. Unfortunately, the development is not going that fast either. It takes months for my PRs to be even reviewed for the first time, let alone merge.
Whoa that website’s demo video is selectable text that plays like a video
Looks like it’s using https://asciinema.org/
Shit, I barely remebered :q to exit the damn thing 😂.
opening vim and hitting every key on a keyboard to exit it makes for a strong password.
q, q, q, Esc, Esc, Esc, q, q, Esc, Esc, q:, q:, asdf, asdf, asdf, Esc, Esc, Alt+F4
passing away of Bram Moolenaar has made me accelerate faster towards the day where my machine would be clean of any electron bloat.
Was he electroncuted or something?
bram was a chad, mate. I once opened vim without any file(just plain vi) and saw help poor children in Uganda. read whole uganda.txt file and then saw how his organisation is fully involved in getting material benefits to the ground. further went down the rabbithole and saw his org’s photos in uganda.
made me really appreciate the man.
to answer your punny question, he was ill.
second to Emacs, of course.
Wait til he learns about doom emacs which is emacs + vim keybinds (and a lot of other QOL features)
Emacs is a great OS with a bad editor
Vim is a great editor with a bad OS
Jesus Christ. you’re telling me this now?
I had heard about doom emacs, but never bothered to really look into it.
there goes my weekend.
DistroTube is a great source for Doom-related knowledge (as long as you ignore his “old man yells at cloud” videos).
Doom is EVIL! https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
Well, Doom has Evil, evil collection, etc enabled by default. But that’s less quippy.
I have been using Vim for over 3 years now and still learning new things. Today I learned about ci". Thank you.
