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Worth learning vim/emacs? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by haakon@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/programming

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Im considering spending some serious time learning one of the above. Two principle engineers I work with exclusively use them, and watching them work is incredible, the speed they move and get things done is pure wizadry. Can anyone learn this skill? For what it's worth, the alternative is learning VScode. I’ve exclusive used Android Studio in my career.

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[–] SebKra@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Using Vim-Bindings in an IDE is nice, but I could live without them.

The structurally-aware commands of your IDE are at least as important. (expand selection, surround, refactorings, the contextual commands on alt-enter, ...)

Do not replace your IDE with cli vim.

[–] AnarchoYeasty 2 points 2 years ago

You can do all of that with neovim and lsp integration though. I'm not fully using nvim as my ide but I'm getting there and will be soon.

[–] artemisia 1 points 2 years ago

No, definitely not, but consider learning how to express such things in Vim, then apply Vim bindings to your IDE.