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?

  • onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    4 hours ago

    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.

    • Sickday@kbin.earth
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      41 minutes ago

      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plugins, configuring those plugins and hoping you got everything right and the plugin repo’s README isn’t 10 years out of date.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.

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