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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/poja9 on 2024-04-07 21:53:47.

TL;DR

Can I use Vim and plain text files to output digital documentation similar to those made in Google's and Microsoft's office suites? I imagine this would be feasible for everything except diagramming software and video editing software. I know some programs allow you to insert images in-line and they show up something like [image-file] in the editor/text and don't actually render and push everything around.

For the past couple of months I've been acutely interested in Vim. This stems from my work environment and the state of computing as a whole these days. This has led me to binging some of Primeagen's content, a few other Linux/Programming people/communities. I understand it's a meme- using vim for everything- but... I can kinda see why/how?

I've gotten acquainted with the normal mode commands/movements and how to "jump" extremely efficiently. I understand the reasoning and nuances behind capital letters and why they do what they do, or the relationships between things like a/i, w/W, f/t. I also see how valuable using c can be along with the aforementioned normal mode commands and how Vim understands the concepts of not only word/symbol boundaries but even sentences, paragraphs, functions, indentation, etc.

I absolutely hate word processors, Office apps/suites, and the like. I can get by with shortcuts for some functions and features, but for those that don't have shortcuts I absolutely lose it having to move my mouse to do the thing over and over again. What's worse is the visual overstimulation of the cluttered "ribbons" and menus and all. What tops it off is how overused these apps are for what are essentially just bullet pointed flat files. The slide decks with a title on page 1 and bullet points on the rest drive me mad.

I've seen workflows in which someone had Vim open and they were editing a file in real time with the same file open in another window but it was being "rendered". It seemed like they were able to create an output of what looked to be a research paper, word processor frills and all. I think this was a Luke Smith video? Anyway, I was wondering how possible this all was as a whole. Can I output proper Word documents, PDFs, powerpoints, spreadsheets, all of that- with a flat file constructed in Vim? Are these extensions of Vim/NeoVim or separate utilities altogether?

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/doobltroobl on 2024-04-04 20:12:51.

Last evening I made a small demo to my wife. Nothing fancy, just jumping around the page, moving lines around, deleting several words at a time, the kind of things that blew my mind when I first saw Vim.

Alas, my wife couldn't care less, and she even told me so. I've been married for 10 years, but I'm starting to have some doubts. So I'm appealing to this fine community in this moment of crisis. Where can I go from here? What path should I take?

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/collinalexbell on 2024-04-04 04:01:06.

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/kendall20 on 2024-04-04 03:47:09.

As in no plugins, just out of the box. I know of at least 3 people who were C programmers and they used plain old vim , and were seemingly very efficient at it.

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/Crippledupdown on 2024-04-03 04:59:00.

A few months ago I published 'vim-racer.com'. It's sort of like 'TypeRacer'. Instead of measuring your typing speed, it tests your ability to navigate with vim. There's a few online games that test your ability to navigate efficiently in vim: with the fewest keystrokes. My goal with vim-racer was to test your ability to navigate quickly: the fastest NPM (navigations per minute) wins.

It took me a while, but the leaderboard for vim-racer is back online again. There's a new race type, and with the intention of making the site more educational, I added a tip for every race.

Likely the last day that I'm ranked #1.

If you're wondering why I had to take the leaderboard down, it was because of the cost. I built it with amazon's documentDB. Once the free tier ran out, it got really expensive. It's now built with dynamoDB, and dynamoDB has an unlimited free tier. Fortunately, vim-racer will likely never exceed the free tier limits.

Edit: If you find ways to cheat, I would really appreciate a dm, so I can figure out a way to patch it. Anyone who discloses a cheating mechanism will be memorialized on the site.

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/chingscangling on 2024-04-02 09:17:07.

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/Unhappy_Drag5826 on 2024-04-01 05:11:06.

at 15:30 Elliot uses Nano, and i hate it

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/nvimmike on 2024-04-01 02:47:50.

All of the easter eggs today put me in the spirit to clean up vimpromptu.

Check out my collection of vim easter eggs:

Feel free to open a PR to add or comment any that I haven't found yet!

For those of you who don't want to click a link:

:help |
:help UserGettingBored
:smile
:Ni!
:help holy-grail
:help map-table
:help 42
:help quotes
:help!
:hi!

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/Personal-Attitude872 on 2024-03-28 16:38:32.

I recently started using neo vim so that i could be able to develop and update my projects on a VM from my mobile using an ssh terminal. I really like it so far and somehow its fun lol but as of now I've really only been using it as a simple text editor using the h, j, k, l to nav, etc.. On top of that I haven't fully migrated to Neovim yet as im still only using the nvim extension inside VS Code. I know vim is capable of just about anything and I really want to unlock it's full capabilities, using macros, more niche commands, or even just essential plugins (and configuring them). If anyone has any resources they'd be gratefuly appreciated and let me know if I should just dive head in and ditch vs code or play it slow like I have been

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/Thatchy99157 on 2024-03-28 17:34:08.

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/Taiwanese-Tofu on 2024-03-27 02:57:54.

Not really click bait, well, sort of.

I found out that I passed my on-site loop for a new grad SWE role. One of the interesting things that happened in my post verbal offer HR call is that they read me my interviewers’ notes on my performance. Among them was “nice development environment”.

10/10- would Vim again. Thank you Primeagen.

Edit: just realized that there’s a neovim subreddit, maybe this post doesn’t belong here, but I’ll leave it.

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/alanhape on 2024-03-26 07:04:07.

Or is that just me?

I personally find hitting "qq" the easiest. And then "@q" is pretty easy to follow up with.

I usually don't record more than one macro at a time if I can help it, otherwise things get messy.

Anyone else out there advocate a different approach?

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/Gleb_T on 2024-03-25 00:45:29.

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/HistoricalMistake681 on 2024-03-24 21:13:17.

Very new to vim and I have to say I was intimidated at first by the idea of using vim as my main text editor for coding (primarily in cpp and python). I thought I’d be overwhelmed by the sheer depth of the software and all the commands. But after spending a few days setting up some basic qol plugins and using vim for a bit, I find myself easing into it quite well. It’s quite elegant and even though there’s a lot for me to learn and get used to, I actually look forward to getting better at it. I also need to mention the phenomenal “:help” documentation. It’s detailed and so far has been quite pedagogical to me.

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/dfwtjms on 2024-03-24 17:06:21.

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/Kind_Possibility_374 on 2024-03-23 14:39:44.

Hello there, I'm a freshly new NVim user, I finished learning the basics and I began to get used to it. I was wondering what plugins do Vim pros use so I could use them myself. So what plugins do you use? :3

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/duncecapwinner on 2024-03-21 01:36:11.

Using vim is a fun experience, and I love constantly learning about my editor. But, there are two things that bother me:

• it makes me feel that as a student, I'm focusing too much on learning how to write code over doing novel things with code

• I'm constantly anxious that I am missing big things about vim that are making me inefficient and that I wouldn't be able to keep up using vim at work when most people just use vscode, and install some company-supported plugin whereas I would have to tinker with my rc for 30 minutes to achieve the same effect.

I was wondering ify ou guys have any thoughts on my fears lol. it would be sad for me to spend so much effort learning vim only to not use it ever.

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/ViewFromTheDocks on 2024-03-21 20:14:08.

I use VS code generally but I'm just really enjoying when I can get into a flow with Vim. It's so satisfying when I find myself moving around (relatively) fluidly. My general rule of thumb is that I will use vim when I just want to put something together from the terminal and for other exercises (I'm an amateur at coding) I stick to VS code. It's been a good balance of learning more about Vim without being stuck there too much I get frustrated.

However, as I find myself hoping into Vim more and more I hit a wall: I can't paste in from my clipboard. I can sort of get around this by redirecting an echo command to the file but that's just a pain. I've done vim --version and it shows a minus next to the clipboard.

So, what are my options? I really have tried to do my own research. But I just get too confused. I know nothing about plugins yet (though I'm going to try and move into that for getting vim to work with the gopls language server... but I only just learnt about the idea of LSPs to begin with). When I ask chat gpt it seems to suggest I need to install another version of Vim that has clipboard ability. I was hoping I could avoid having multiple versions but I will if I have to.

For reference, my only experience with Linux is what I'm using right now: the Linux VM on my chromebook. (and holy shit I love learning about the command line... I want to leave my mouse behind!)

Any guidance is appreciated!

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/yopp_son on 2024-03-22 18:42:25.

Does anyone else feel this way? I suppose I haven't made a concerted effort to learn vim specifically (except for reading the first chapter or so of this book about vim I found), so maybe that's why. I've always used vim in a fairly simple manner (basic navigating, searching, copying, cutting, pasting), and searched around for certain tricks whenever I encountered a common pattern in my editing. I think the only : command I know off the top of my head is the s command for replacing multiple occurrences of some string or pattern. And keep in mind, I've used this editor almost exclusively for years now. What does it take, and how long does it take, to feel like you really *know* vim?

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/cestoi on 2024-03-21 16:57:59.

Hello everyone , do you know any other youtube channels or articles where you can see black magic with vim , like denvarr's channel ?

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/dfwtjms on 2024-03-22 11:25:19.

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/Mediocre_Bottle_7634 on 2024-03-20 20:19:14.

Do you guys have any recommandations for the best vim cheat sheet or infographic or even short guides ? I will be teaching vim to my colleagues next week, and i'd like to give them pleasant resources to read.

Thx !

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/Snooper55 on 2024-03-20 07:51:25.

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/Chooseausername6544 on 2024-03-20 01:56:21.

I'm asking about native Vim features that other non-modal text editors don't natively support, but feel free to list anything you like about Vim.

Mine are : Modal editing, text objects (like jumping to next word, paragraph, brace), macros, running external commands, spell check and probably others too.

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The original was posted on /r/vim by /u/Telmo-Sousa on 2024-03-19 14:01:10.