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I’ve tried vim on and off during college but never really had the time to fully get working with it. As it turns out the stress of two degrees is not conducive to “fun activities”. Now that I have a real job ™️, I’ve decided to finally try and use it this week full stop and I genuinely feel like a programming chad. There’s still a lot I’ll need to learn and probably overtime I’ll discover some inefficiency in how I’m using it now but it really does just feel good. I understand the hype now.

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[-] witness_me@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

I use vim keybindings in both IntelliJ and VSCode with no problems.

[-] msage@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Keybindings are OK, but anything beyond movement was way less ok.

Don't remember if macros or buffers were implemented correctly.

[-] witness_me@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Buffers do work in IntelliJ. Not sure about macros since I don’t use them. Haven’t checked VSCode. I found the IntelliJ plugin was better though.

[-] msage@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Macros are absolute must, without them it's just walking.

[-] witness_me@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

I just tried it out, and IntelliJ’s vim plugin supports macros. You’re in luck :)

[-] msage@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

I might give that a try very soon then, thanks.

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