Switching from Vim to Intellij

Re:Switching from Vim to Intellij by freedomben on Friday November 06, 2020 @04:33PM (#25011404)

You make a great point: I wasn't considering code navigation. I did indeed get a ton of value from that back in the day.

For most of what I do the symbol is defined/used in the same file, so a simple `*` (Shift + 8) will get what I need it, but when it doesn't then I'm relegated to grep (I actually use a tool I wrote myself called findref[1]). It gets me 70 to 80 percent of the way there, but that's it.

To me that's "good enough" that when combined with the other benefits of plain vim over an IDE (especially ability to work over SSH like it's local, which I do a lot), it's worth it to me.

[1]: https://github.com/FreedomBen/findref

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Switching from Vim to Intellij by tsimionescu on Friday November 06, 2020 @07:35PM (#25012403)

Sure, I completely agree that you get 70-80% of the way there with very simple tools, and there is value in that.

Just one note about SSH: Emacs and VSCode have a nifty way of doing the opposite of how you use vim over SSH: I can run Emacs on my own system and edit remote files directly and even run remote commands. This has the nice advantage that I get to use my own customized Emacs but still edit files on all sorts of remote systems, including stuff like kubernetes-mode or other niceties.

[ Parent | on HN ]