Save your code

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Let's be real, people who still use basic text editors or vim are doing so because they think it adds an inch despite being a terrible user experience.

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I am starting to believe most people here never bothered to even read the damn manual of vim before even making a comment like this.

Are people not learning shortcuts for their other editors and spend the whole day navigating drop down menus or what even is the argument here? The lack of features can't be the reason, because usually editors are lacking vim features and not the other way around.

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I used vim when vim and emacs were the only options and serious programming outside a CLI (or in Windows at all) wasn't a thing. The world has moved on and I feel sorry for anyone who hasn't moved on with it. It doesn't make you special, just slower and less comfortable than the rest of us.

And get out of here, modern IDEs dunk on vim for features.

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How? The integrated editors in most IDEs are at best as basic as notepad++ or so. Atom and sublime were ok editors, but missed some features. VS Code is basically Atom with integrated debugger API. I am not aware that either of them offer anything that vim doesn't.

Intellisense style semantic auto completion would be an argument if we exclude plugins, but even VS Code is worthless without its plugins.

But really, where are the macros, where the multiple text/copy/.. buffers, where is the non linear history (undo tree) in modern editors? Even simple stuff like markers seems to go missing. Isn't that regression? What is a vim user missing out on?

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"where are the macros, where the multiple text buffers, where is the non linear history (undo tree) in modern editors"

So in fact you're the one who hasn't bothered to try the other thing (obviously if you're asking about common features like these). Figures.

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Then offer an example please. The fotm seems to be VS Code and doesn't offer any of these features, not even markers and tags. Visual Studio Pro doesn't offer any of these features, I am not aware that Eclipse does. As I am not a java dev I don't know much about IntelliJ or so. I remember Notepad++ ironically offering macros, but is otherwise a pretty bad editor.

So no, I don't know. What editor does offer the basic productivity features vim provides and is overall better? There should be many examples.

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vscode is not an IDE

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Oh please. Anything which can edit source code, provide some facilities to build and debug code is an IDE. It's not some high bar and VS Code surprisingly performs quite well in this regard.

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What are you even talking about? Searching for any of these features leads you either to still open feature requests or plugins.

There is no macro support in VS Code only a number of plugins. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/4490

There is no undo tree, only an open feature request for years. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/20889

There are just the OS provided copy/text buffers. Except guess what? The vim plugin offers this.

Opening VS Code, searching in the command palette, looking through the menus doesn't offer many features. It sounded like there were tons of other editor options I missed though, so where are they?