Why Should You Learn Vim in 2020

Re:Why Should You Learn Vim in 2020 by imran3740 on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @05:10PM (#24065621)

I'd also recommend Neovim[0], a community-led fork of Vim. One of the focuses of Neovim is exposing an API that lets other apps embed a headless instance in their UIs. This lets you use your Neovim editor along with all its configuration and plugins inside other apps! I've never been satisfied with any of the available vim emulator plugins out there for VSCode, IntelliJ, etc. (there's always something missing!), so this feature has been really valuable to me if I need a better debugging experience but want to use nvim as much as possible.

Someone's already made plugins that embed a Neovim instance right inside VSCode[1] and Sublime Text[2]. There's no emulation here, just straight up neovim running behind those buffers. I've tried VSCode with that plugin (though personally I like to stick to just neovim when I can), and I can say that despite some minor bugs it's been a pretty smooth experience. Even stuff like `gt` to change editor tabs is supported.

[0]: https://neovim.io/

[1]: https://github.com/asvetliakov/vscode-neovim

[2]: https://github.com/lunixbochs/actualvim

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Re:Why Should You Learn Vim in 2020 by adsjhdashkj on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @05:16PM (#24065685)

How does the Vscode and Neovim thing work though? I've tried to implement something similar for Kakoune and Atom editor, but i noticed that Atom would always manage its own buffer, and Kakoune as well, so i'd have to basically duplicate the buffers - passing tons of data around constantly.

Does vscode-neovim work around this somehow?

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