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).
image transcription:
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.’
explanation for the command ci":
c: change. analogous to delete(d) followed by insert(i)
i: inside
": the double quote
so, it’s basically change inside double quote(easier to remember as it sounds exactly what it does).
you can similarly do di((delete inside parenthesis).
an inferior alternative on vscodium would be shift + alt + right/left arrow
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.
Doom is EVIL! https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
Well, Doom has Evil, evil collection, etc enabled by default. But that’s less quippy.
DistroTube is a great source for Doom-related knowledge (as long as you ignore his “old man yells at cloud” videos).
I’ve been using vim/neovim for more than a decade. Here are my favorite plugins (ranked):
- junegunn/fzf
- junegunn/fzf.vim
- bling/vim-airline
- airblade/vim-gitgutter
- w0rp/ale
- Shougo/deoplete.nvim
- tpope/vim-surround
- tpope/vim-fugitive
- tpope/vim-unimpaired
Bonus tip:
ci" means change inside “” ca" means change around “”
the " can be replaced with any of: ({[wspbt
For changing inside or around parentheses, curky brackets, square brackets, words, sentences, paragraphs, code blocks and HTML tags respectively.
So for example if you want to replace all parameters in a function call you just do ci(
But that’s not all, the c is one of the possible operators, but not the only one.
di{ deletes the content of a block ya[ copies the content of something inside square brackets g~iw swaps the case of a word guis makes a sentence lower case gUip makes a paragraph upper case
And the most useless one: g?at replaces the content of an HTML tag with its rot13
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.
Whoa that website’s demo video is selectable text that plays like a video
Looks like it’s using https://asciinema.org/
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.
