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?
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
Save the Ugandan children
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Neovim is my goto editor for terminals. Yes.
:wq
I keep it holy with Emacs
I started in vim and now moved into evil emacs
Only helix
nano
micro > nano
yes, that’s how unit prefixes work
iyes :wq
Been there, done that: forgetting to press ESC
I pressed it. Just pressed it again. Turns out it doesn’t show up on Lemmy. Lol
I like to press"Control-c" instead of ESC. It is more convenient to type and mostly does the same thing.
I use it where it’s available and helix isn’t
Helix is just used 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plugins, configuring those plugins and hoping you got everything right and the plugin repo’s README isn’t 10 years out of date.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.
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 …
Yes! Neovim for coding, Vim for non-code editing
There is literally and figuratively no reason to not use Neovim for both.
No, I use Neovim. But this I use 100% of the time.
I’m a freelance linux it nerd. I figured I better get used to vim/nvim because every company I visited had different tooling available but their servers ALWAYS had vim.
Now I have a nice .vim setup I can easily copy/paste and work easily and fast. I’ve become quite adept in the years following that decision.
Plus, as a freelance dude using vim quickly and flying through code bases makes it really seem like I know what I’m doing / hacker type … I don’t. And I’m no hacker… But the customer is happy soooo :-)
P.s. I’m currently trying out the Zed editor with vim bindings. They are emaculate!
Didn’t end your post with :wq
ZZ
Because you use :x for that.
Yes. I started using it years ago and have been unable to exit ever since.
But honestly related to your question, I started learning to use vim exactly because when I started to learn and use Linux I was often stuck in situations where that was the only thing available.
Vim is slop-coded now, unfortunately. I use evil Emacs.
I guess I should take another look at evil-mode.
There are forks.
evi is not mature enough and doesn’t have any package repos. There is another fork that I’m not going to mention, because it’s developed by a horrible human being.
