‘vimtutor’ is your friend. Nobody sane uses vim as an IDE, but if you have to ssh to a host to fuck with a config file it’s pretty nice to know because you can guarantee that most distros have at least vi, if not vim.

[–] nous@programming.dev 32 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Nobody sane uses vim as an IDE

Huh? Many people do this. With the right plugins and config it is just as capable as any IDE.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Many people do this.

Many people are insane.

[–] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

wait till you see emacs, and dont even let me mention vscode that thing runs on JS!

[–] whodatdair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

I’ve met both the good kind of insane genius that uses it as an IDE and the crazy-board nutjob that uses it as an IDE, but both are decidedly not sane.

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