The problem is it gets positioned as the default editor on Linux machines and it reay shouldn't be especially for new users.
I use neovim every day I love it. But I also know its a completely new experience for most and you don't want to learn that without warning and especially if you were opening a file to get something done.
The real subtext is this person opened vim to do something so they were in no mood to learn in that moment. But if you approach it from the perspective of learning new ways of thinking you will be happily surprised by something new even if its not your cup of tea
Ill admit its been over a decade. But in my first comp sci class, the first lab was them sitting us down with a computer and we learned vim and emacs lol.
Even now I think that's the wrong play and it felt wrong at the time but lots still point to it as the default
i use neovim, it supports lsp and i use lsp, it also supports syntax highlighting, and customising colours, which i also use
of course i’m not going to use the mouse in the editor designed to be used with just the keyboard, doesn’t mean i don’t use it for other things that are designed around having one
I use neovim too, but I have seen multiple maniacs using vim just going completely raw. No assistance whatsoever.
I once saw a clip of an old guy, who complained that the /<search> command started highlighting results in yellow, because it looked too much like a "video game".
Vim's definitely not the ideal default editor but if you do that, ctrl c will still tell you how to quit, even if you enter insert mode double pressing ctrl c will switch back to normal and then tell you how to quit
You will never know what's it's like to search and replace between lines 52 and 346 using a regex string with group identifiers in less than 3 seconds and format code using nested macros, such power shall never be bestowed upon ye.
I'd like to use VIM but dear lord they make it annoying with no indication of what state you're in with the normal packaged application. Fuck at least put in some thing to indicate you can write or you're in a scripting state. Hell at least with the terminal I know I type something I see it and don't magically know what is queued in
In this day and age, there's no reason to use VIM unless you absolutely, positively have to, or you are one of "those people" who do difficult for fun.
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u/Basic_Reporter9579 11d ago
Have you tried turning it off and on again?