I’m trying out Obsidian for taking notes, and this made me laugh.

  • bioemerl
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    02 years ago

    Vim really is an IDE, not a text editor. It’s usable as an editor but overkill.

    Nano serves a difference purpose. It’s like telling someone on a bike that a mustang is better.

    • Kogasa
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      02 years ago

      Vim is absolutely not an IDE. It has no integrations with any language. It’s just a powerful text editor. You can add language plugins and configure it to be an IDE.

      • Bo7a
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        02 years ago

        No offense intended here - But why is this being upvoted?

        vim absolutely is an IDE if that is how you want to use it. Syntax highlighting, linter, language specific autocomplete, integrated sed/regex. And much, much more.

        • Kogasa
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          02 years ago

          Syntax highlighting, linting, and language specific autocomplete are features supported by plugins and scripts. Plain, simple vim is a powerful extensible text editor. The extensibility makes it easy to turn into an IDE.

            • Kogasa
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              02 years ago

              Yeah, there is a generic syntax highlighting scheme. I had forgotten because it’s not very good for some languages, I’d replaced it with a LSP-based implementation years ago.