Re:I have reached Vim nirvana
by andreyk on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @02:47PM
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Personally I like Vim because I do a lot of coding while in an SSH session and it's easy to port my setup very quickly. My work involves using a workstation with a GPU so I am not able to do that at home, and debugging requires me to run things from command line a lot to know what to change in the code. No doubt I could create a set up with a fancier IDE to do that, but at the scale I'm working in (academic code with just 1000s of lines of code) there is really no need.
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You can do the same with vscode btw. I also work on remote gpu workstations and vscode remote with ssh works just fine, especially if you use tmux, you can preserve all the history and what you were doing.
In my experience, vscode remote code editing is very buggy and resource hungry. Not very fitting if your Internet is unstable/slow and/or your target workstation is not that powerful (why is 8GB of RAM not enough?). I've had more success with Neovim either with distant.nvim[0] or directly on the Workstation with mosh[1]