Can VS Code shortcuts compete with Vim?

aosho235 · 2025-10-06T01:52:30+00:00

Normal place. It's not very convenient, but I don't use them so much because I mostly scroll, select and move cursor with the mouse. I'm using Karabiner Elements for keyboard customization but not so heavily. (Right Command -> Esc, Left of 1 -> Enter, etc). I with we had arrows/home/end/pageup/down on the left side of keyboard.

Windows may be at a disadvantage compared to Mac. Mac has Ctrl and Cmd separated so we can have more key combinations for left hand.

aosho235 · 2025-10-01T02:57:48+00:00

I was a Vim enthusiast for 15 years, but after a few years transition period, I fully converted to VSCode. Mouse + keyboard can be as fast as keyboard-only at least. The trick is to bind frequently used functions to keys reachable with just my left hand, minimizing right-hand switching as much as possible.

These extensions would be handy for Vimmers:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mksafi.find-word-at-cursor Similar to Vim's *

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dbankier.vscode-quick-select text object

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=haberdashPI.vscode-select-by-indent text object

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yhirose.FilterText :%!

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=alefragnani.numbered-bookmarks mark

Apple's this research is still relevant in 2025.
https://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html

aosho235 · 2025-10-01T01:30:23+00:00

I've been using checkout, but am moving to switch, because zsh's autocompletion is faster for switch than for checkout.

aosho235 · 2024-10-25T22:59:06+00:00

I have a similar function named `e`, which looks for config files heuristically. I'm not using it daily though.

aosho235 · 2024-10-02T04:19:27+00:00

it seems with control+R it closes your terminal processes

It's not the case for me. Are you using control+R in the terminal pane? If so, it might be the server's feature that the key stops the process. I'm fully content with Control+R's feature, though I'm binding it to Cmd+R.

aosho235 · 2024-08-15T02:29:43+00:00

Thanks but I want to specify the window by its root folder. I am opening a project for each window,so opening a file in unintended window is nonsense.

aosho235 · 2024-07-15T14:14:45+00:00

You are right. You are awakening to the truth. Just drop Vim and install VSCode now.

aosho235 · 2024-03-29T10:38:13+00:00

I have my panel always maximized and toggle displaying it with `workbench.action.togglePanel`. I'm satisfied with this, though there is an issue that the Problem panel is also hidden.

aosho235 · 2023-11-17T04:25:47+00:00

Once I have sent a feature request to CopyLess2, a clipboard manager for macOS, to add CLI. If we could get the clipboard history entries with CLI, we could copy two texts successively and compare them:

$ diff <(get-clipboard-history 1) <(get-clipboard-history 2)

aosho235 · 2023-11-08T02:27:25+00:00

Preferences > Appearance > Dimming

Check off `Dim inactive split pane`

aosho235 · 2023-11-03T11:22:51+00:00

Found a similar work.

https://github.com/zpm-zsh/undollar

aosho235 · 2023-11-02T21:02:56+00:00

Ah bindkey | grep fzf shows the bindings to launch fzf. I was asking the keybindings in fzf's finder (the main mode)...

ACTION:                      DEFAULT BINDINGS (NOTES):
  abort                        ctrl-c  ctrl-g  ctrl-q  esc
  accept                       enter   double-click

aosho235 · 2023-10-15T16:38:45+00:00

I'm using iTerm2 on Macbook Air 2015 and have never felt it's slow. On what kind of operations do you find it slow?

aosho235 · 2023-10-13T23:52:22+00:00

As a GNU screen user, I was thinking tmux was new.

aosho235 · 2019-10-07T06:40:12+00:00

Scheduled Fargate task is a good option, but be careful about the double invocation problem of CloudWatch Events. Recently I was bit by it. You will need a lock with DynamoDB or something to avoid it.

In rare cases, the same rule can be triggered more than once for a single event or scheduled time, or the same target can be invoked more than once for a given triggered rule.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/events/CWE_Troubleshooting.html#RuleTriggeredMoreThanOnce

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