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Re: "Vim, the editor, the notekeeper and the IDE"
I don't know how long I've been using vim (now neovim), but it must be over a decade now. But I'm far from knowing everything. And all those plugins! My last big discovery (there were a few later ones too), was "VimWiki" with "Telescope" for note-taking and fuzzy finding.
Aug 28 · 4 months ago
☕️ Aptor-theHobbit [OP] · Aug 28 at 14:35:
I have been using VimWiki for few months now and I found it super intuitive. It has made my jumbled and dispersed note taking chaos much tidier. I have not used Telescope yet, I will look it up today. Fuzzy finding is awesome. I like to do everything except browsing in the terminal. Its kind of a sickness really. Some might even say its a terminal decease. 🤣 DrawIt is a plug that I recently found for the creating ASCII art.
🚀 stack [mod] · Aug 29 at 13:01:
After a couple years of vim only, opened emacs and seemed completely idiotic and I couldn't remember how to do anything
☕️ Aptor-theHobbit [OP] · Aug 29 at 14:49:
I know how you must have felt. Its one of those thing that only another vim user can understand. Have you ever tried explaing the vim-way to a non-vim user ? After couple of minutes of logical explaination, looking at the confusion at their face, I realize, this is something that can not be explained. Vim needs to be experienced and unfortunately only select few has that much amount of patience and will to learn and adapt.
🤠 timmy2tos · Sep 06 at 02:07:
I have been using VimWimi for years now and love it.
I'm always confused on fresh installed servers or containers when there's only nano or some other non-modal editor. I hit <ESC>:wq and look stupid.
🦉 ResetReboot · Sep 06 at 11:03:
Ah, yeah, Vim. I made it a point to start using it as my main $EDITOR and learning a bit each of the new tricks or asking around how to make something happen.
Now I'm totally feeling like I got cut some fingers when I use any other editor, even the Vi emulations are quite lackluster compared the the full Vim (or Neovim) experience. Once you go Vim, you can never go back, but damn, if you really feel powerful.
☕️ Aptor-theHobbit [OP] · Sep 06 at 11:11:
The first thing I do is to install vim. I don't use many plugins, vanilla vim has so many features built-in such as autocomplete CTRL-X CRTL-L. Ctags is super useful will working with big project.
Vim, the editor, the notekeeper and the IDE — Some of the vim shorcuts which gets used a lot has become past of the muscle memory after few years of using vim. I am still learning new functionality almost everyday. Its like knowing someone very well and still be surprised every now and then after finding out new and interesting things about them. Vim is familiar, moving hand to the mouse feels weird when using any other text editor. Few days ago I had to use a Windows machine (😧), and I had to...
💬 Aptor-theHobbit · 8 comments · 3 likes · Aug 28 · 4 months ago · #note_taking