Do you use vim as your default text editor? If you do not, have you ever been in a situation you could do nothing but use vim?
I’ve been using Vim for 20 years.
I only opened it once and I haven’t been able to close it yet
Yes
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I keep it holy with Emacs
nano
micro > nano
yes, that’s how unit prefixes work
Only helix
Didn’t end your post with :wq
ZZ
Because you use :x for that.
Old school Emacs user here. The keyboard shortcuts are so ingrained in my head I don’t know if I would ever be able to switch to another editor. Old dog …
Yes
For much, not for all.
System and user files are pretty close to one another in NixOS, so I use it for both. Sudoedit is set to vim, but I have a kitty and neovim (technically it’s nnot nvim, it’s nvf so I can config it in Nix instead of Lua) environment that tiles quite nicely and uses nonconflicting keymaps.
I use mod+hjkl for navigating my window manager, too, which has led to an interesting situation. Hyprland just migrated to Lua from Hyprscript, and Neovim uses a lot of Lua for inbuilt commands and stuff, so you’d think I’d be thrilled to write them both in the same language. Instead I just sigh at the greener grass because I already configured them both in Nix.
I do use Obsidian (with Vim binds, and monospace source mode as default for everything except tables) for my markdown viewer / primary notekeeping cloud sync, and Kate for previewing media that needs to be formatted right as a .doc or .pdf.
Some Obsidian notes are handled with Vim, actually. I have a script that sets up a new Zettelkasten note with automatic tags and opens it in Neovim, because I find it faster than Obsidian when I have a single thought and need to write it before it’s forgotten. Thanks ADHD. I write Zettelkasten like little scripts of code - unique, atomic, referencing and importing each other, with a unique version history, and Vim’s great at that.
Damn, that’s quite the detailed setup.
Thank you! I believe Vim is a deeply individual and almost emotional experience, and a bit of rambling is always worthwhile to get the perspective of a Vim setup.
No, I use Neovim. But this I use 100% of the time.
Yes! Neovim for coding, Vim for non-code editing
There is literally and figuratively no reason to not use Neovim for both.
Vim is slop-coded now, unfortunately. I use evil Emacs.
I guess I should take another look at evil-mode.
Yes. I started using it years ago and have been unable to exit ever since.
But honestly related to your question, I started learning to use vim exactly because when I started to learn and use Linux I was often stuck in situations where that was the only thing available.
Started on vi, stayed in whatever has vi/vim bindings available.
The more I can stay on home row keys the better editing text is.
VSCode/Codium with vim mode. Regular vim if I’m stuck in text land.
I haven’t tried neovim. Supposedly that could handle everything I need out of vscode, but it’s easier to not be an odd one out at work.
