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    I am a vscodium user who has begun to get increasingly frustrated over lack of commands to do some simple things.
    So, as a longtime GNU/Linux user, who only knew basic commands to survive in vim, I decided to change my habits.
    installed flavours of neovim(lunarvim, nvchad, and astronvim, in that order) and started tinerking. then switched to kick start.nvim.
    on Android, I'm using plain neovim since there seems to be some missing lib for mason, the neovim package manager.
    passing away of Bram Moolenaar has made me accelerate faster towards the day where my machine would be clean of any electron bloat.

    I'm still very much a novice, and continue using codium in office, but I am committed to using neovim as I believe it's truly a great editor(second to Emacs, of course).


    image transcription:
    famous still of Nicholas cage with his eyes closed, smiling as his hair flow.
    above it is the text that reads, 'learning about ci" in vim.'

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    I love vim and vim based editors.

    I used to use stock Vim but recently I've started using Helix which is like a more user friendly version of vim (copying to clipboard is easy) and I'm loving it!

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

    If it's easier to use how are we supposed to keep the Emacs people away?

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    wow, good to know that there are still terminal-based text editors being developed.

    I'll surely try it.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Helix is pretty cool, I think the Lemmy devs use it too.

    I use it because it's purple and I like purple.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

    royal choice, I see :)

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Whoa that website's demo video is selectable text that plays like a video

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

    +1 for Helix. I found it recently and it feels way easier to make changes and add support for new languages.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

    If only they would support vim keybindings

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    Helix's editing model is much more preferable to vim's for me but the editor is not at all hackable so I can't daily drive it yet. Unfortunately, the development is not going that fast either. It takes months for my PRs to be even reviewed for the first time, let alone merge.