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0 pointsmax766y ago0 comments

> some if not all these features are in vi as well

I'm not sure exactly which vim features are also in vi. Vim has been a daily use tool for me since about 2007.

Vim has really good Macro recording. Vim + Tmux is great for side by side code frames, and there are plugins for showing multiple buffers in one Vim instance. Remote file editing is good with SSH + Vim. Vim has multiple registries for yanking/putting. Vim has column editing functionality.

Almost anything Emacs does out of the box Vim can do with either a plugin or with an external program pairing. I prefer Vim's keybindings because there are less "chords" (Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V are copy and paste chords, they requiring pressing two buttons at the same time). Too many chords causing my pinky fingers to become tired. Vimscript is a surprisingly powerful language for dealing with text data, but it's cryptic the first decade you are exposed to it.

EDIT: I'm more interesting in the code people write than the way people write it, but I wanted to share some of my vim knowledge and point of view.

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nitemice6y ago

Unless I've misunderstood, you can use splits to show multiple buffers in Vim without any plugins.

billfruit6y ago

What about manipulating of splits, like converting vertical split to a horizontal split, enabling/disabling synchronized scrolling, etc..

logram6y ago

You can do both of those things in vim. I don't mean to be nitpicky, I'm just mentioning in case someone reading this didn't know and uses vim. You can set scrollbind and convert splits (off the top of my head I think it's Cw Ch and Cw Ct).

billfruit6y ago

Remote editing, I mean using the local computer's emacs to edit file on the remote computer, where emacs does all the work of fetching and syncing the file (using ftp, ssh etc) back to remote. I think vim can do something similar too.

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0 pointsmax766y ago0 comments

> some if not all these features are in vi as well

I'm not sure exactly which vim features are also in vi. Vim has been a daily use tool for me since about 2007.

EDIT: I'm more interesting in the code people write than the way people write it, but I wanted to share some of my vim knowledge and point of view.

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nitemice6y ago

Unless I've misunderstood, you can use splits to show multiple buffers in Vim without any plugins.

billfruit6y ago

What about manipulating of splits, like converting vertical split to a horizontal split, enabling/disabling synchronized scrolling, etc..

logram6y ago

billfruit6y ago

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