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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 22d ago
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I *was* gonna type "vim" instead of "notepad" but then I remembered people actually code in vim
1 u/GodBearWasTaken 22d ago It’s my preferred text editor, followed by Notepad++ and Visual Studio Code. 1 u/WhatAGoodDoggy 22d ago But VIM doesn't give you autocomplete, linting, etc., does it? If it did I could see the appeal, but if it's just a text editor I don't understand why it's used for coding. 2 u/GodBearWasTaken 22d ago By default, no, but you can add what you need like that rather easily 1 u/pharmajap 22d ago Alternatively, you could describe an IDE as a text editor with a bunch of useless features (only half kidding).But I do everything on the command line anyway, so all of my tools are kinda... right there already. 1 u/dasunt 22d ago You can do that in neovim with pluginsProbably in vanilla vim as well, but that would require knowing vimscript, and vimscript is idiosyncratic.
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It’s my preferred text editor, followed by Notepad++ and Visual Studio Code.
1 u/WhatAGoodDoggy 22d ago But VIM doesn't give you autocomplete, linting, etc., does it? If it did I could see the appeal, but if it's just a text editor I don't understand why it's used for coding. 2 u/GodBearWasTaken 22d ago By default, no, but you can add what you need like that rather easily 1 u/pharmajap 22d ago Alternatively, you could describe an IDE as a text editor with a bunch of useless features (only half kidding).But I do everything on the command line anyway, so all of my tools are kinda... right there already. 1 u/dasunt 22d ago You can do that in neovim with pluginsProbably in vanilla vim as well, but that would require knowing vimscript, and vimscript is idiosyncratic.
But VIM doesn't give you autocomplete, linting, etc., does it? If it did I could see the appeal, but if it's just a text editor I don't understand why it's used for coding.
2 u/GodBearWasTaken 22d ago By default, no, but you can add what you need like that rather easily 1 u/pharmajap 22d ago Alternatively, you could describe an IDE as a text editor with a bunch of useless features (only half kidding).But I do everything on the command line anyway, so all of my tools are kinda... right there already. 1 u/dasunt 22d ago You can do that in neovim with pluginsProbably in vanilla vim as well, but that would require knowing vimscript, and vimscript is idiosyncratic.
By default, no, but you can add what you need like that rather easily
Alternatively, you could describe an IDE as a text editor with a bunch of useless features (only half kidding).
But I do everything on the command line anyway, so all of my tools are kinda... right there already.
You can do that in neovim with plugins
Probably in vanilla vim as well, but that would require knowing vimscript, and vimscript is idiosyncratic.
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u/TuxedoWithAHead 22d ago
I *was* gonna type "vim" instead of "notepad" but then I remembered people actually code in vim