Ask HN: How do you sync your computer’s development configurations/environment?

Re:Ask HN: How do you sync your computer’s development confi... by vlunkr on Thursday May 26, 2022 @11:54AM (#31519884)

I think there's a healthy middle ground here. Endless tweaking of settings tends to be a waste of time, but if you spend hours a day on a computer, you might as well make it comfortable. Some people use no $EDITOR plugins and wear it like a badge of honor, this is pretty silly to me. The few minutes it takes to install and learn about a plugin might save you hundreds on hours in the future.

I guess my personal strategy is to run with the defaults until you find the pain points, and install/configure something to address them. And put them in git repo if possible.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you sync your computer’s development confi... by Sohcahtoa82 on Thursday May 26, 2022 @12:30PM (#31520338)

> Some people use no $EDITOR plugins and wear it like a badge of honor, this is pretty silly to me.

I don't use any plugins for PyCharm or IntelliJ, but they're pretty full-featured right out of the box. I certainly don't do it as a badge of honor, that indeed is pretty silly.

But vim is useless without any plugins. Even VSCode is only marginally better than Notepad++ unless you give it the plugins necessary to turn it into an actual IDE and not just a code editor.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you sync your computer’s development confi... by allarm on Thursday May 26, 2022 @01:55PM (#31521441)

> vim is useless without any plugins

It’s not? I mean vim defaults are great, it supports a lot of formats out of the box (indentation, syntax highlighting), it’s ideal for quick edits. Surely if you need an IDE-like functional then it’s not enough (probably) but it is very far from being useless without plugins.

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