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Re:Visual Studio Code 1.9 by emidln on Thursday February 02, 2017 @06:53PM (#13556240)
As someone who did a fair amount of hacking in vimL, evil-mode is a drastically improved vim. It gets basically everything right, out of the box, and extending it isnt nearly as painful as using vimL or interacting with vim's Python API.
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Re:Visual Studio Code 1.9 by flukus on Thursday February 02, 2017 @06:57PM (#13556280)
> It gets basically everything right, out of the box

Custom bindings don't work on the default document. That's a pretty big failure right out of the box.

And I still prefer vimL to lisp, it's the php of editor extension languages. It's not great for big plugins but ok great to slap things together quickly.

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Re:Visual Studio Code 1.9 by Lio on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:54AM (#13558444)
It doesn't, in my experience, get insert mode shortcuts like C-h right out of the box because it clashes with emacs' help mode functionality.
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