How to turn Vim into a powerful and beautiful IDE | Jess Archer, Vimconf 2021 

Absolutely Brilliant man

Its almost as if you could just have used a better application (shock horror)

@@briumphbimbles like vim? My lack of care on config organization doesn't automatically make vim a bad application. And you'd have to take vim out of my cold dead hands. It took some time for me to get used to it but it's worth every single moment of them. No regrets.

@@yojansh I didnt say it was bad but it is completely mastubatory almost all of the time. I like it but it doesn't seem to make writing code easier or faster in almost all cases and the portability argument goes out of the window as soon as you start needing extensive configuration. Use what ever you want but anything that comes with a cult like dogma or fetishism should probably be viewed with as much suspicion.

​@@briumphbimbles masturbatory is a strong word. Overzealous maybe. And I disagree that it doesn't make you code faster. I see night and day difference when I have to work on my work IDE vs my personal projects working in n/vim. Just having to not worry about mouse makes navigating code that much faster. On top of that, my terminal is my IDE so it gels well with my workflow. And double disagree on portability. I use dotfiles which is just one git push away from being portable. It's true that you have put in lot of upfront work to fully understand vim and turn it into more productive code editor but that's the part of journey that I was initially talking about. The upside of that is you will eventually truly know your editor and have it just the way you want it which, not a lot of other "better" applications offers and that to me is important.

​@@yojansh It was deliberately provocative yeah but yeah overzealous is maybe more appropriate. I wasnt talking about you in the specific use of the word I was talking about in general when I have watched people use it it hasnt improved their coding speed but actually been a relative hindrance when compared to people who dont. It may have improved their speed relative to their speed in other applications though that is a bit of an unknown quantity. Yeah ok but other IDEs can store their configuration in git too my editor has an extension that automatically synchronises my changes across machines logged into with my github login. I think that upfront work is a false economy. What you are essentially saying is you are forced into filling the gaps of the application and configuring it to your liking so you end up learning it. But you would also do the same if you learned the feature-set or customised any other software right? As I said I like Vim but I like it in theory more than I like it in practice and no amount of chasing the dragon of a perfect Vim configuration got me as close to a good development experience as some stock editors/ ides.

Yes, but a cool use case for auto reselect after indent is when you want to indent a bunch of nested blocks and it's nicer this way, rather than reselecting everything manually.

@@ovi1326 I'm not sure if I follow the description of your use case, because indenting nested lines works with single-repeat without reselecting anything. In fact, you can combine < or > with text motions to do the same and then simply type "." as needed.

I'm on Linux so iTerm2 isn't an option for me, but I do know MacOS users that like Kitty.

DE absolutely looks to be gnome

distros don't matter, this is a gnome desktop environment, you can install any desktop environment on any distro

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+1

integrated development environment

It's fzf.

I got about five minutes in before I gave up.

"Woman" lol

Well, don't know about everyone, but I personally can't stand VScode for some reason, too much clutter in the UI, too much potential to slow down, and the need to use the mouse for me felt somewhat unintuitive when my main goal was to edit text. I use BOTH vim and emacs, each one serves a purpose, and I got to this point after using Atom, then VScode, then back to Atom. Oh and VIM emulation in VScode doesn't feel right for some reason.

@@johnAntoine There is no need to even touch the mouse in VSCode if you don't want to. I myself don't even touch the mouse at all while coding at Zen mode view.

@@jayartist_ opening files, navigating your file system, opening the integrated terminal, switching between open terminals, among other things, were either not convenient or impossible to use the keyboard for. If this is not the case anymore then VScode must have changed since i last used it more than 2 years ago. Back then, if exclusive keyboard navigation was possible, it certainly wasn't convenient VIM can be set up on a toaster, and it'd most probably run fine. That's maybe the draw for many developers.

@@jayartist_ in vscode is mandatory to use mouse.

Why would you need a full blown X? Everything ran in the terminal, you just need to have all these plugins also installed on your remote vim.