Do you use vim as your default text editor? If you do not, have you ever been in a situation you could do nothing but use vim?
VI and vim have been my editors of choice for thirty plus years at this point. I also use set -o vi in bash.
No, and no. Sorry.
Fuck no. There are better things to invest your brain power in.
Yes, I’ve used it as my main editor for years now.
I’ve been using Vim for 20 years.
I only opened it once and I haven’t been able to close it yet
I’m not sure at what point in the last 20 years they put the instructions in the vim, but it gives you clear instructions on what to do if it thinks you’re trying to escape from vim jail.
It’s called a power button.
Yes
vim all day
They will take it from my cold dead hands
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Neovim is my goto editor for terminals. Yes.
:wq
Only helix
nano
micro > nano
yes, that’s how unit prefixes work
I keep it holy with Emacs
I started in vim and now moved into evil emacs
iyes :wq
Been there, done that: forgetting to press ESC
I like to press"Control-c" instead of ESC. It is more convenient to type and mostly does the same thing.
I pressed it. Just pressed it again. Turns out it doesn’t show up on Lemmy. Lol
I use it where it’s available and helix isn’t
Helix is just user friendly vim, honestly. Vim barely has any help and helix is batteries included. Ever since discovering it, vim feels like a downgrade.
It’s just way easier to get helix to a usable state for the languages I write in than it is with vim. I don’t have to go plugin hunting or vetting random github repos; all the support mostly comes shipped with the editor. Throw some lines in TOML file and you’re good, vs downloading a plugin manager, downloading plugins, configuring those plugins and hoping you got everything right and the plugin repo’s README isn’t 10 years out of date.
vim feels like a downgrade.
100%
The process you described is definitely what I went though with vim and neovim. After about a decade of vim I still couldn’t get proper language support and an IDE like experience going. When language servers and the debugging protocol came along, it was worse to find the right plugin and configure that correctly.
Helix simplified my decade long struggle with vim in a single weekend. It still isn’t a TUI IDE but it’s such an upgrade, I’ll take it.
Same. Every machine I have control of I install Helix. For the rest, I remember just enough vi to do what I need and get out.
Didn’t end your post with :wq
ZZ
Because you use :x for that.
No, I use Neovim. But this I use 100% of the time.
Old school Emacs user here. The keyboard shortcuts are so ingrained in my head I don’t know if I would ever be able to switch to another editor. Old dog …
