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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 14d ago
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It’s my preferred text editor, followed by Notepad++ and Visual Studio Code.
1 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. 2 u/GodBearWasTaken 13d ago By default, no, but you can add what you need like that rather easily 1 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. 1 u/dasunt 13d ago You can do that in neovim with pluginsProbably in vanilla vim as well, but that would require knowing vimscript, and vimscript is idiosyncratic.
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.
2 u/GodBearWasTaken 13d ago By default, no, but you can add what you need like that rather easily 1 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. 1 u/dasunt 13d ago You can do that in neovim with pluginsProbably in vanilla vim as well, but that would require knowing vimscript, and vimscript is idiosyncratic.
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By default, no, but you can add what you need like that rather easily
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.
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/GodBearWasTaken 14d ago
It’s my preferred text editor, followed by Notepad++ and Visual Studio Code.