Re:Making Emacs Popular Again
by 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 on Thursday May 07, 2020 @11:58PM
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Better yet, install vscode, then install either the vim or emacs plugin. The best of all worlds!
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Re:Making Emacs Popular Again
by chipotle_coyote on Friday May 08, 2020 @01:42AM
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Eh. Sort of. Like the other person who replied about the Emacs plugin, I find myself running into issues with the Vim plugin -- usually not the keybindings as much as the ex-style commands. For instance, ":20,27m." will move a block of text in Vi/Vim to under the current location; that doesn't work in VSCode Vim. Worse for me personally, I've gotten really used to the ":find" command being the (rough) equivalent of a fuzzy file search: ":find App.php" will find that file no matter where it is in the current project, but again, not a VSCode Vim command.
It's a good emulation, but it's not a great emulation.
Re:Making Emacs Popular Again
by jgalentine007 on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:32AM
(#23111998)
Ctrl+p will let you search nicely for files in vscode. At least the VI integration is better than the extension I use with Visual Studio.
Re:Making Emacs Popular Again
by chipotle_coyote on Friday May 08, 2020 @12:05PM
(#23116304)
Oh, yeah, I do use that (well, Cmd-P over here in Mac-world). It's just when I get into Vim mode I type ":find" reflexively and I get disappointed for a moment. :)
(Ironically, there's a Vim plugin called CtrlP to do the same thing that I never use because I find it confusing and weird compared to everybody else's implementation of the same idea...)