• azimir@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    If an IDE doesn’t have vi key bindings it isn’t going to be used by me. That’s what finally get me to change from terminal only dev to vscode. Until I found the vi editing extension the IDE wasn’t of interest.

    Yes, vi is just that good.

    I hear emacs bindings are also great, but I just know how to save and exit from emacs.

    • Drew Belloc@programming.dev
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      9 months ago

      I use doom emacs and have to say, it takes everything that I like about vim and adds to emacs, plus a lot of useful features that i would have to install myself otherwise that can be enable by just uncommenting a feel lines in the config file.

      It’s can feel a bit bloated at first but allows me to have the perfect IDE (for me at least) in a matter of minutes.

      And the best of all is that I don’t need to use the emacs keybinds if I don’t wanna (and I don’t).

    • TΛVΛR@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      Emacs keybinds are fine, used them for some years. But once I tried modal bindings I never wanted to go back, “key-chords” just add strain.

      Fortunately emacs has many options for modal keybindings, I prefer meow over vim personally