I use vim btw

  • bh11235@infosec.pub
    3·
    1 year ago

    To me vim’s main strengths are

    • It delivers the same OK-ish experience no matter what file type or language I’m dealing with. Yeah it’ll never be as good as a dedicated Python IDE for writing Python, but I’d rather know vim than 5 different IDEs for Python, YAML, Dockerfiles, Rust, Latex, whatever I need to deal with today.
    • It just edits files and doesn’t hide internal state, intermediate files, etc to make my life ‘simpler’ (notepad is the same, so I guess this is more of a strength vs IDEs). When an IDE fails to align all of its internal moving parts just right to compile a project I know I’m in for an hour of figuring out which checkbox needs to be unticked in what sub-sub-sub-sub-submenu, I like it much better to have a “flat” experience of invoking a command line and getting an error message directly from the tool I am invoking.
    • 20dd to delete 20 lines, that’s very neat.
  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    2·
    1 year ago

    Why would I use Notepad? I’d have to install it first. Does it even have a Linux version or would I have to use Wine? This meme is giving me headaches.

    • Gork@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      You would think that Microsoft would have implemented better functionally by now. Yeah they had WordPad but that sucked too.

      Like, c’mon, allow me to alt-highlight blocks of text already.

  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 year ago

    Seems like the right side should be classic terminal tools like ed. Or any other cat/echo/etc where you change the contents of the file without opening it (or all of it) directly.