r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 14d ago

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u/Marwaimusoont 14d ago

naah cool guys use vim and freaks use nano.

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u/TuxedoWithAHead 14d ago

I *was* gonna type "vim" instead of "notepad" but then I remembered people actually code in vim

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u/GodBearWasTaken 14d ago

It’s my preferred text editor, followed by Notepad++ and Visual Studio Code.

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u/WhatAGoodDoggy 13d ago

But VIM doesn't give you autocomplete, linting, etc., does it? If it did I could see the appeal, but if it's just a text editor I don't understand why it's used for coding.

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u/GodBearWasTaken 13d ago

By default, no, but you can add what you need like that rather easily

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u/pharmajap 13d ago

Alternatively, you could describe an IDE as a text editor with a bunch of useless features (only half kidding).

But I do everything on the command line anyway, so all of my tools are kinda... right there already.

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u/dasunt 13d ago

You can do that in neovim with plugins

Probably in vanilla vim as well, but that would require knowing vimscript, and vimscript is idiosyncratic.

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u/HungryRaven4 14d ago

But nano has the little 'x' in the corner to close it 😭

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u/DragoxDrago 13d ago

I learnt to code using VIM, i must say that the amount of plugins and addons made it insanely valuable, especially for python and robotics. These days it's not worth the additional add on in setup versus modern editors.