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Not so long ago (5-6 months) I swapped to vim and started using it on a daily basis, I liked it a lot and got comfortable with basic motions, installed cool plugins. But a few days ago I started thinking about why I am even trying to use something efficient am i truly love this editor is it really worth it, I started thinking about being false vim user, like that I am just fooling myself around, and now I am in some kind of existential crisis, but not because my life, just because the editor. I really like vim as my editor, but at the same time I still think that probably other editors really nice and neat and all I am doing is overcomplicating my life. I need some guidance

honestly such a mood


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in reply to @sudocurse's post:

i went back from kakoune (a vim like editor with an object-verb command scheme) to just plain VS Code for most of my programming. i miss it, especially when refactoring or writing boilerplote, but the simplicity, and how much vs code and its plugins get out of my way is really nice.

i still use kakoune for writing bash scripts and any kind of word processing where i turn data from one format into another, but uninstalled most of my plugins.

idk. i don't think there's a right or wrong way to use editors. i think the thing that really changed for me is that in my current role, 80% of my work is file navigation. i don't know about vim, but kakoune just couldn't compete with a mouse-based editor application for that 🤷

I learned early on that (a) you need to know the basics of vi (and ed), just in case you're stuck on a machine that can't support anything else, and (b) as soon as you start customizing your editor, things have gone horribly wrong, because that's a bottomless pit of work that has nothing to do with what you actually want to do...

It's been a year since I switched to vim and I can relate to the feeling.

What I always keep in mind is that each day I use vim, I get better and better since the learning curve is (deep but also) reaching high. Each day I used VSCode was just another day, I wasn't feeling more efficient at all.

So I'd say keep it up, even if you feel it's not worth it right now, you're definitely picking up speed, even if it's been years 💪