The amount of time my classmates have spent dealing with vscode crashing, freezing, breaking, etc is way beyond negligible. And yet, I'm the weird guy apparently for preferring vim and GCC.
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Ooooh thank you for reminding me I need to make this switch
To you, @toothpaste_ostrich@feddit.nl, and anyone else planning to do the switch:
Back when I was still a VSC(odium) user, you needed to perform a small tweak to regain access to the quite useful extensions marketplace (in the sense of, paste the extension ID, see the same results as a M$ VSCode user*): There is a file named product.json which allows you to “regain” access if you populate it with the following values:
{
"extensionsGallery": {
"serviceUrl": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery",
"itemUrl": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items",
"cacheUrl": "https://vscode.blob.core.windows.net/gallery/index",
"controlUrl": ""
}
}
(Taken from my old dotfiles, so this may be outdated, not sure. Also, you’ll have to look up the location of this file, it will differ depending on OS. On macOS it goes in ~/Library/Application Support/VSCodium.)
*If you do not need this 1:1 identical functionality, you may try the Open VSX marketplace. But especially in a class setting, I found this very useful, since all the tutorials/instructions will work without needing adaptation.
Hadn't heard of this, but I'm going to switch now!
If Vim is so good, then why can't you browse Lemmy from it?
This meme was made by the Emacs gang.
"But guys, gtfomp" - emacs
helix gang anyone?
:3
epic editor :3
Helix is much faster than neovim, but annoyingly it feels so limited. Can't change anything about it.
But it's supposed to get plugins at some point.
Soon… surely… any day now… not coping…
The “worst” part is it already works, just takes long to become as perfect as possible. See the showcases like filetree.webm.
Edit: track the broader discussions/progress at this wiki entry.
tbh, one of the essential things vim gets right for me is that it's designed as a text editor, not (only) a code editor. I use it for so much non-code text as well, but it feels weird opening a coding tool for such things.
That can't be right, the red car has a service manual and too many functioning assemblies for it to be VS.
laughs in Emacs
My professor was always trying to get us to use vim or eMacs over an IDE to write our C programs. I’m sorry, I like using a mouse. I know, I know, blasphemy. I’m taking a shortcut. I’m a noob.
When I absolutely have to, I go for vim, mostly because I know a few of the key bindings for it, but otherwise avoid it.
Competent terminal editors offer optional mouse support…
I use vim btw
I use vim, aliased to vi, on Arch btw.
I use neovim btw
I plan on moving to a nice Neovim setup eventually, but VSCodium is so convenient out of the box for a baby developer like me.
You'll be glad to know that the difficulty comes from the syntax and very little from any programming skill level. You learn new ways of writing certain code structures like indented curly braces for example. Programming python might be easier than cpp in vim, not due to the language, but just cpp having more complex syntax to type.
Tldr, almost exactly the same amount of effort whether you've been coding for two weeks or two years.
Hint: :q!
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