Why I Still Use Vim

Re:Why I Still Use Vim by _pmf_ on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:33AM (#15080544)

I wanted to agree with you and write a snide remark about Atom, but then I checked RAM usage of an empty Sublime Text 3 instance on 64 bit Linux, and it was at about 136 MB, so there's that.

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Re:Why I Still Use Vim by mugsie on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:58AM (#15080698)

Sure - there will always be an overhead for window compositing, etc.

But the point of the article is the bloat as you open larger files, which gets much larger when you use a DOM to do syntax highlighting.

I have (and unfortunately still have to from time to time) open massive log files - in sublime / vi / nano they open fine (even with syntax highlighting), but even on my workstation Atom and Code fall over.

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Re:Why I Still Use Vim by _pmf_ on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @10:26AM (#15081755)

Maybe the virtual DOM should be an actual virtual DOM instead of an additional DOM that doubles the materialized DOM (like desktop application's virtualized list and tree views since 20 - 30 decades).

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