Re:Ask HN: Is there other software similar to Vim and Emacs?
by ipaddr on Monday July 18, 2022 @05:26PM
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Are you opening visual code in your putty session to edit a config variable? They are as similiar as word and pico.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there other software similar to Vim and Emacs?
by nnoitra on Monday July 18, 2022 @05:28PM
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No, but that's for basic text editing only. Anything more serious and you spending 2 hours per 6 hour development time configuring vim.
Re:Ask HN: Is there other software similar to Vim and Emacs?
by Vijayvithal on Monday July 18, 2022 @11:45PM
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You configure Vim Daily? For every Task? Wow!
I have once .vimrc configured for all the languages that I use/know. Whenever I work with a new client. I pull that .vimrc on the allocated machine. Run PluginInstall and in minutes I am ready to go!
Re:Ask HN: Is there other software similar to Vim and Emacs?
by 5e92cb50239222b on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @09:26AM
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I would claim the opposite — VSCode is nearly unusable without very heavy customization unless you're fine with being very inefficient. Hotkeys for many common operations are not assigned out of the box. Without that, using it involves driving the interface with both the mouse and the keyboard. Those that are assigned are awkward and look like they've been designed for a spider since they require you to reach keys on the opposite sides of the keyboard. I always get the feeling that its own authors don't use it for anything more complicated than editing /etc/hosts, although it's quite obviously not true.