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Re:Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Cou... by emsy on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @10:42AM (#19144379)
I can only speak for myself, but I've used vim plugins on almost every IDE I've ever used. Unlike editor shortcuts, which are often exclusive to a certain IDE, vim is transferable and that's how it has one of the best cost/benefit ratios for me.
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Re:Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Cou... by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @10:45AM (#19144413)
> Unlike editor shortcuts, which are often exclusive to a certain IDE, vim is transferable and that's how it has one of the best cost/benefit ratios for me.

Doesn't that just mean you've selected VIM's syntax for all your IDE's? Most IDE's seem to have plugins for other popular editors.

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Re:Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Cou... by NegativeLatency on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @12:34PM (#19145586)
Seems like it’s the difference between him being supported in many IDEs and say visual studio shortcuts being supported in some thing like Atom. (Support May exist for this, IDK)
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Re:Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Cou... by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @12:47PM (#19145700)
True, VIM may not be better, but it's a standard so it's well supported.
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Re:Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Cou... by weaksauce on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @12:48PM (#19145709)
No, vim is a layer on top of the ide. normal keyboard shortcuts and other editor features still work in say Xcode or visual studio.
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Re:Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Cou... by heavenlyblue on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @01:06PM (#19145872)
So does vim support proper refactoring as it is in IntelliJ IDEA for any locally-scoped variable?
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Re:Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Cou... by antew on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @01:12PM (#19145941)
No, but you can use the Vim plugin for IntelliJ and get it that way! There are Vim plug-ins for every IDE I've used.
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Re:Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Cou... by emsy on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @10:52AM (#19144487)
I can't reply directly to SketchySeaBeast but you're right, there are probably alternatives. Emacs shortcuts are widely used on terminal emulators iirc. Vim is just one option for a portable, efficient way to edit text.
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