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
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 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.
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 …
Yes
Yes! Neovim for coding, Vim for non-code editing
There is literally and figuratively no reason to not use Neovim for both.
Yes, won’t quit, can’t quit, seriously, help.
For much, not for all.
System and user files are pretty close to one another in NixOS, so I use it for both. Sudoedit is set to vim, but I have a kitty and neovim (technically it’s nnot nvim, it’s nvf so I can config it in Nix instead of Lua) environment that tiles quite nicely and uses nonconflicting keymaps.
I use mod+hjkl for navigating my window manager, too, which has led to an interesting situation. Hyprland just migrated to Lua from Hyprscript, and Neovim uses a lot of Lua for inbuilt commands and stuff, so you’d think I’d be thrilled to write them both in the same language. Instead I just sigh at the greener grass because I already configured them both in Nix.
I do use Obsidian (with Vim binds, and monospace source mode as default for everything except tables) for my markdown viewer / primary notekeeping cloud sync, and Kate for previewing media that needs to be formatted right as a .doc or .pdf.
Some Obsidian notes are handled with Vim, actually. I have a script that sets up a new Zettelkasten note with automatic tags and opens it in Neovim, because I find it faster than Obsidian when I have a single thought and need to write it before it’s forgotten. Thanks ADHD. I write Zettelkasten like little scripts of code - unique, atomic, referencing and importing each other, with a unique version history, and Vim’s great at that.
Damn, that’s quite the detailed setup.
Thank you! I believe Vim is a deeply individual and almost emotional experience, and a bit of rambling is always worthwhile to get the perspective of a Vim setup.
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!
