Re:Making Emacs Popular Again
by brmgb on Friday May 08, 2020 @04:31PM
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> vim is a similar rabbit hole, maybe less deep.
Vim was for a long time and still pretty much is mostly a text editor. It is light, work well with large files and is installed on most Unix machines. I don't think trying to turn it into an IDE makes much sense but if you want to develop with it, installing a language server client takes two minutes and you don't need much more.
As a text editor, Vim is really nice. Modal editing can be very pleasant if it clicks with you.
Vim was for a long time and still pretty much is mostly a text editor. It is light, work well with large files and is installed on most Unix machines. I don't think trying to turn it into an IDE makes much sense but if you want to develop with it, installing a language server client takes two minutes and you don't need much more.
As a text editor, Vim is really nice. Modal editing can be very pleasant if it clicks with you.