This is interesting to me. vim was my main editor since the start of my career and I was very fast with it, much faster than my peers with an editor. at the outset of llm’s, I ended up using a plugin that would utilize bindings to help me edit faster. with claude code, and how fast it is making changes across many files, I almost never use vim anymore, or vi, unless I need to inspect files in a container/server.

Could you share a bit more about this?

there were plugins where I could quickly describe the edits I wanted, and it would utilize my existing bindings and shortcuts to do stuff that was very common for me. It was more of a fun trick than useful, I guess, but it saved keystrokes, and I have severe tendonitis, so it was nice.

Nowadays almost never enter vim, because it is 100x faster than I could ever be. I use it for viewing files occasionally but reviewing edits in the claude or codex window usually works just as well. It’s the first skill I expect to decay for me (vim)

Yes indeed, same here!

Funny, because the only reason I fire up VSCode is to chat up the bots because we are AI-compliant now and the customers pay for it.

I tried nvim integration but it was half-baked and I can't even use nvim as an editor because they removed cscope support. nvi back in the day also dropped support for cscope because it wasn't vi enough. Hell, there is barely a working source repository for it. Only vim supports it out of the box. Am I the only person using cscope in 2026?

As of current day, I only use vim with no plugins to edit source code.

Why cscope and not an LSP?

Because I've been using it for over 30 years?

I knew there were more visual studio type plugins that may also fit my needs but as I said I do not use plugins. If I install "vim" and it isn't in it, I most likely am not going to use it.

A "language server" also sounds all kinds of wrong although I suppose the function is the same.

Same. And if I may, that led me to creating a Vim file browser that runs in a separate terminal (tmux pane!) so I have fewer window navigation shortcuts to remember: https://github.com/hoffa/vitree

Is the idea that you can stick with tmux splitting-resizing keys instead of vim ones?

Yes!