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    [–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 92 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
    [–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    The full name is VScodium. https://vscodium.com/

    Codium is a genus of edible green macroalgae.

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    [–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Ooooh thank you for reminding me I need to make this switch

    [–] stetech@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    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    (Taken from my old dotfiles, so this may be outdated, not sure.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.

    [–] toothpaste_ostrich@feddit.nl 2 points 4 days ago

    Good to know, thanks for passing this on!

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    [–] flamingos@feddit.uk 82 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    If Vim is so good, then why can't you browse Lemmy from it?

    This meme was made by the Emacs gang.

    [–] Badland9085@lemm.ee 37 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Because unlike emacs gang, we don’t need to build an OS to browse Lemmy.

    How bout you go back and let your friends know that if they’re in need of a good editor, try Vim ;)

    [–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Vim needs are met by using Evil-Mode. You don't have to leave Emacs for this.

    [–] Badland9085@lemm.ee 40 points 2 weeks ago

    As a poke at Emacs' creeping featurism, vi advocates have been known to describe Emacs as "a great operating system, lacking only a decent editor".

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war

    :P

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    [–] flamingos@feddit.uk 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    How bout you go back and let your friends know that if they’re in need of a good editor, try Vim ;)

    If my friends wanted a good editor, then I wouldn't recommend a Vimitor, I'd recommend ed, the standard text EDitor :p

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    [–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)
    [–] 1984@lemmy.today 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

    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.

    [–] stetech@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    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.

    [–] joytoy 7 points 2 weeks ago

    👋 present!

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    [–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Meanwhile, James rocks up with Notepad++

    [–] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    smh real programmers use magnetized needles on tape

    [–] activ8r@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 weeks ago
    [–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

    The Fiat Panda of text editors

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    [–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
    [–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 2 weeks ago

    I use neovim btw

    [–] r00ty@kbin.life 13 points 2 weeks ago

    I use vim, aliased to vi, on Arch btw.

    [–] udon@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 15 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

    Have been a professional software engineer for 8 years now. Have yet to find a reason to use vim for anything (other than availability of course, but if nano isn't installed for some godforsaken reason I have other problems lol).

    [–] toynbee@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    I've been in various forms of coding and administration for around fifteen years now. Despite trying lots of editors, I have yet to find a reason to use anything but vim.

    I do like obsidian for note taking.

    edit: Removed typo.

    [–] chellomere@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

    Professional software engineer here, using vim as my primary editor.

    [–] AntY@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

    Vim is a way more competent editor than nano. If you spend a lot of time editing files via ssh, vim is amazing. And when you get bitten by it, you’re infected. ;-)

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    [–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    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.

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    [–] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 weeks ago

    I feel like I’m the only person using KDevelop

    [–] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago

    laughs in Emacs

    [–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    I would argue that vim is fantastic for a lot of editing and coding tasks, just not all of them.

    Where it utterly fails is with deep trees of files in codebases, like you see in Java or some Javascript/Typescript apps. Even with a robust suite of add-ons, you wind up backing into full-bore IDE territory to manage that much filesystem complexity. Only difference is that navigating and managing a large file tree w/o a mouse is kind of torture.

    [–] ivn@jlai.lu 13 points 2 weeks ago

    Fuzzy finding really shine for this use case, no need for a mouse.

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    [–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago

    Ewww not even vscodium

    [–] HStone32@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

    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.

    [–] j4k3@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

    "But guys, gtfomp" - emacs

    [–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    It always surprises me how complicated some of the editor tooling sounds in threads like this. Obviously once you learn how to use these things they are powerful, but how do people have the patience to deal with all of that in the beginning? This is coming from a guy who writes scripts constantly to avoid doing tedious, error-prone things.

    Also I keep seeing people say vscode is slow. One of the reasons I switched to it is that it's insanely fast compared to other editors I used (even those with far-inferior featuresets) 🤷‍♂️

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    [–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)
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    [–] muse@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    That can't be right, the red car has a service manual and too many functioning assemblies for it to be VS.

    [–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

    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.

    [–] stetech@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

    Competent terminal editors offer optional mouse support…

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    [–] Bysmuth@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Code and intellij have plugins available to use vim keybindings on them. I like this approach to get the best of both worlds

    [–] lime@feddit.nu 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    the vim plugins are so bad... they only support the super basic stuff, as soon as you want flags with your search or chaining of commands they are useless

    [–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

    The neovim plugin for VSCode uses the actual nvim binary as a backend and supports all features.

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    [–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago

    It's not the same. Granted it's been years since I used the vim plugin but last time I tried it couldn't even do standard find and replace.

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