The trap is that you should use vi. Don't wuss out.
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2025
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Yeah. A lot of people who use vim don’t know how to use the full power of vi. They’ll often install plugins to do things they could have easily done with built in features!
The one area where regular vi sucks though is undo. If you want multiple undo then you’ll have to at least go with something like nvi.
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vscodium slightly better than vscode tho.
honestly all ide's are rubbish - especially electron ones. for a gui editor, i've just gone back to sublime text and have never been happier.
Tbf codium is a very well optimized electron app. Don't believe me? Try discord
very well optimized electron app
It's like a very light Elephant
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& then there's emacs
(& this-post (there-is emacs))
Helix tho
There's no way to emote it, but you know when those old Italian ladies spit at people to keep the evil away from themselves? I just did that in your general direction...
lmao gramps. Real old lady energy here
Though I use neovim as a text editor, Zed is my IDE of choice. I think it’s a good alternative for most people that don’t like Electron-based applications.
Zed is good but still in its infancy, but it has new content and sees many improvements quickly, needs more extension developers and I had to make my own extension for a language that was not well handled by zed
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After years of using Linux, the last time I used Vim, I remembered for the first time how to go into command mode, exit, and save the file I was editing without looking anything up.
I'm the opposite, I sometimes find :w or :wq written in text files I have edited with non-vi editors.
I made :q alias to exit in my shell