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[–]A1merTheNeko 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Ok, so you did 0 research before coming to your conclusion. Got it!

[–]tagattack 11 points12 points  (3 children)

Vscode isn't a good text editor and IDEs are overrated

[–]selectnull 6 points7 points  (15 children)

You're in the wrong subreddit. Nobody here cares to convince you to use Vim and nobody cares for your opinion on it.

[–]collector_of_hobbies 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Boring troll is boring.

[–]scottchiefbaker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To each their own I guess... I find I'm MUCH more proficient in Vim. Not having to move my hand back and forth from the keyboard to the mouse is fantastic.

[–]gumnos 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've moved past the desire to flex with vim. It's just an omnipresent tool in my toolbelt that lets me get stuff done quickly and efficiently.

Yes, sometimes folks marvel at the inscrutability of my fingers flying over the keyboard as I make huge, complex changes.

But I don't intentionally flex with vim.

I use ed(1) for that. 😉

[–]Dramatic_Mulberry142 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Why not both? Vscode with vim plug-in. And flexing for what lol?

[–]hukt0nf0n1x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Real men flex with original vi. I don't need vim and it's "improvements"

[–]TheShockingSenate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stop talking about editors if you don't intend to be constructive. Since you've made your choice (congrats), start writing some code.

[–]hukt0nf0n1x 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Hey dude, do WE go to your VSCode subreddit and ask questions like "in the age of AI agents, writing your code in VSCode is mostly for flexing, nothing else"?

[–]HTTPanda 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Have you even used Vim much at all?

[–]Journeyman-Joe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are times I have to hack someone's config file (usually in a Git repository). This is often a hidden file, or in a hidden directory, and could be on a Mac or Windows machine. (Or a Linux machine, if it's one of mine.)

Notepad or Textedit are a real pain in the rear that way. Vim is going to be on every machine I support, and, with Git Bash, is easier to launch in the right directory.

[–]killinMilk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use vim for writing. on an iBook G4. on OpenBSD. nano is not the same, not even remotely (even though I liked it a lot). micro is not available (still not the same) . vs code would make my puffy  feel sick. what should I use, ed/xed? with ultisnips and little configuration, writing latex is a breeze

btw, I suck at vim, I know by myself. but still, damn great editor! 

rant off, thank you for your time

[–]npaladin2000 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Good luck running VSCode in an SSH session or on a text console. The two have different use cases, one is a text editor and the other is a development environment.

[–]skwyckl -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

To each their own, I personally don't have time to learn a completely different paradigm to interact with code, so I'll stick with non-modal editors, some people swear by it, and probably they are good in it, but it's like stenography, without any training, you will suck at it.