SpaceVim – Like Spacemacs, but for Vim

Re:SpaceVim – Like Spacemacs, but for Vim by marktangotango on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @10:02AM (#13318758)

I was in a similar boat. The reality for vim is; generally, the syntax checkers and code completion plugins are hacks, honestly, go read the source code. When I did I was aghast that people were using and promoting them (specifically the java plugins). It's been a couple of years so take this with a grain of salt, imho etc.

I think if one really want's to pick up vim (or emacs) you have to set aside the IDE part of your brain. For example, I still use an ide for java, but I use vanilla vim with no plugins for frontend (html, css, javascript, ember cli). There it's a text editor and that's all I need. Plain vim actually has A LOT of functionality. If one learns the vim way, they might find they don't need nearly as many plugins.

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Re:SpaceVim – Like Spacemacs, but for Vim by wyclif on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @11:46AM (#13319765)

I've always suspected that the fastest way to learn vim is to install the default and not copy someone else's ~/.vimrc at first. Edit it whenever you need some specific functionality, and edit often. Also read the :help docs a lot.

But I admit it would be nice if the vim project shipped a sane default setup that was aimed at the average programmer.

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Re:SpaceVim – Like Spacemacs, but for Vim by wyclif on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @10:24PM (#13324440)

Late edit to the above: I was wrong and outdated about defaults. Someone just reminded me that Vim 8 now comes with better default config.

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