Vim
Tried Vim in the beginning of my coding journey back in 2021. Liked it. Then found Emacs. Found org mode. Could not go back.
Tried a few times as you can see below, but still, I am writing this from Emacs in .
1 I tried!!
isirasiau evil emacse org mode neveikia tab vscode.. tingejau ieskotis. + blet nebus ten agenda, tai koks tolkas daryti kazka su datomis.. zodziu.. aciu, ne. kaip projektu ieskoti vscode
galiausiai pagalvojau… ble, jeigu man dabar gerai, kam man isradineti dvirati ir meginti priprasti prie naujos sistemos be AISKIU benfits. Dabar supratau, jog tai darau vien del to, kad kazkas pasake, jog evil yra nice. Ne aciu.
Kai tikrai pamatysiu, jog man reikia, tuo met ir ismoksiu visus dalykys. O, geras, isjungiau company mode ir org major mode - nebemeta tu damn suggestions. Gal ir gerai.
2 Vim bindings in evil
Well, I'm not sure how relevant my experience is to your case. Originally i used Emacs in favor of Vim. Evil just makes Emacs a straight up better Vim and the emulation is as good as flawless.
Vscode happens to also have a pretty decent vim emulation.
It's not as configurable and in the beginning it feels incredibly restrictive to not be able to customise everything and script things on the fly.
But after a while you realise that it's as much a blessing as it is a curse. Because of this it relies on sane defaults instead, and suddenly you'll find yourself messing with your config once a month rather than twice a day.
Just added something new to your stack or need language support for a new language? Just search for it in the built-in extension manager, press install and you're done. Back to work. No manual needed, no time wasted scrolling through their issue tracker to figure out why the hell you can't get LSP support or completions to work. It Just Works™.
That said I still miss a lot of things, and it regularly gets on my nerves. But it definitely makes me more productive.
5 old .vimrc
" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- " Plugins " ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged') Plug 'scrooloose/nerdcommenter' " comment text out Plug 'tpope/vim-surround' " surround text with ' { ( or edit html tags Plug 'itchyny/lightline.vim' " indicating modes and more info bottom bar Plug 'junegunn/fzf', { 'do': { -> fzf#install() } } Plug 'junegunn/fzf.vim' " fuzzy file finder Plug 'easymotion/vim-easymotion' "jump to word Plug 'morhetz/gruvbox' " theme Plug 'mattn/emmet-vim' "adding html tags Plug 'vim-scripts/AutoComplPop' " super duper text autocompletion Plug 'machakann/vim-highlightedyank' "highlight yanked text call plug#end() " ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- " Stuff " ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- syntax on set number relativenumber set laststatus=2 set colorcolumn=80 set cursorline set tabstop=2 set softtabstop=2 set shiftwidth=2 set expandtab set smarttab set nowrap set textwidth=0 set mouse=n set noerrorbells set autoindent set copyindent set virtualedit=all set ignorecase set incsearch set smartcase set hidden "buffers set complete+=kspell set completeopt=menuone,longest " :h completeopt set shortmess+=c " don't pass messages to |ins-completion-menu| set t_Co=256 set background=dark colorscheme gruvbox " Ignore rules for file editing set wildmenu "shows multiple matches on one line set wildchar=<tab> set wildmode=list:full set wildignore+=*.swp,*.bak,*.pyc,*.pyo,*.so,*~,*.zip,*.gz,*.tar set wildignore+=virtual/,.virtualenv/,upload/,uploads/,node_modules/ " Autosave set updatetime=1000 autocmd CursorHold,CursorHoldI * silent update " ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- " Shortcuts " ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- " nnoremap <F2> :e $MYVIMRC<CR> " nnoremap <F3> :source $MYVIMRC<CR> let mapleader=" " nnoremap B ^ nnoremap E $ inoremap kj <ESC> :command WQ wq :command Wq wq :command W w :command Q q let g:user_emmet_mode='n' "only enable normal mode functions let g:user_emmet_leader_key=',' let g:NERDSpaceDelims=1 let g:NERDDefaultAlign = 'left' let g:highlightedyank_highlight_duration = 500 let g:highlightedyank_highlight_duration = -1 " Press * to search for the term under the cursor or a visual selection and " then press a key below to replace all instances of it in the current file. nnoremap <Leader>r :%s///g<Left><Left> nnoremap <Leader>rc :%s///gc<Left><Left><Left> " Automatically fix the last misspelled word and jump back to where you were. nnoremap <leader>sp :normal! mz[s1z=`z<CR> nmap <leader>t :enew<cr> map <leader>pv :Ex<CR> map <leader>m :Marks<CR> nnoremap <leader>x :bd<CR> map <leader>f :Files<CR> nnoremap <Leader>+ :vertical resize +10<CR> nnoremap <Leader>- :vertical resize -10<CR> nnoremap <silent> <Leader>l :Lines<CR> nnoremap <silent> <Leader><Enter> :Buffers<CR> inoremap <expr> <c-j> ((pumvisible())?("\<C-n>"):("j")) inoremap <expr> <c-k> ((pumvisible())?("\<C-p>"):("k")) let g:EasyMotion_do_mapping = 0 " Disable default mappings map <Space><Space> <Plug>(easymotion-bd-w) " ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- " Backups and swap " ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- silent execute '!mkdir -p /tmp/.vim-backup' set backupdir=/tmp/.vim-backup set noswapfile autocmd BufWritePre * let &bex = '-' . strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M") " ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- " Spell Checker toggle " ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- " set spelllang=en_usdfdsfsdfdsfsdfsf " function! ToggleSpellCheck() " set spell! " if &spell " echo "Spellcheck ON" " else " echo "Spellcheck OFF" " endif " endfunction " nnoremap <silent> <Leader>sp :call ToggleSpellCheck()<CR> hi clear SpellBad hi SpellBad cterm=underline,bold hi SpellBad ctermfg=Red