Why, oh WHY, do those #? nutheads use vi?

Re:Why, oh WHY, do those #? nutheads use vi? by Koshkin on Sunday December 02, 2018 @02:29PM (#18584024)

I have always had a problem with all these emacs or vim plugins for various editors and IDEs. The problem is that as soon as you leave the context they work in - switch to a different window or a dialog box (or, in the case of Visual Studio, anywhere outside the code editor window), you are back to having to use the native key bindings.

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Re:Why, oh WHY, do those #? nutheads use vi? by hipplec on Monday December 03, 2018 @12:42AM (#18586596)

I had the same issues. I really liked vim for editing scripts but wanted more functionality as I was studying datascience and needed to work on Jupyter notebooks and RMarkdown files. Luckily someone showed me spacemacs which is an emacs distribution built on emulating the vim experience but with all of the power of emacs.

http://spacemacs.org/

Definitely worth checking out.

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Re:Why, oh WHY, do those #? nutheads use vi? by Insanity on Sunday December 02, 2018 @03:32PM (#18584393)

IntelliJ does this quite well with IdeaVim IMO.

Even the quick definition window (to look at a method's implementation) supports it even though you can not edit the code there. Still useful for navigating.

Not all plugins are good - but I am already happy if they support basic functionality rather tham having to miss all functionality.

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