How Did Vim Become So Popular?

Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by RMPR on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @03:24AM (#23698740)

Just feel the urge to mention cscope which is ctags on steroids

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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by joelthelion on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @05:32AM (#23699618)

And LSP is yet SO MUCH better

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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by RMPR on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @05:45AM (#23699684)

Heard good things about it, but I'm on an endeavour to learn how to do things with Vanilla Vim first to avoid abusing my use of plug ins for things Vim can handle gracefully ootb.

Now you're the creator of autojump, I just want to say your software is definitely a time saver, especially with this https://github.com/fdw/ranger-autojump, keep up with the great work.

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Re:How Did Vim Become So Popular? by joelthelion on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @06:39AM (#23699996)

I'm with you with avoiding too many plugins. But LSP is not just another plugin, it's the standard for languages to implement IDE support. I find it hard to justify not using it if you're doing serious software development (depending on the language of course).

Thanks for the kind words on autojump :) I'm no longer involved with the project, but I feel the general idea is still relevant.

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