I agree that Vim is mostly a text editor and not an IDE, so I can't figure out how a developer can be as productive with Vim as with an IDE.
I would love being able to develop a real project with Vim, but the few tries I gave to it with PHP or Go projects have failed. When it comes to refactoring, find-and-replace is not enough.
I know about LSP and most of the IDE are using them as Vim does, but IMO it's not enough to have an acceptable developer experience. Or maybe, as you said, it's a new technology and it's not ready to use.
I also know about fzf plugin, because I use SpaceVim, but I never really tried it.
What I saw from SpaceVim sounds very, very exciting, so maybe some day it will be working great.
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I highly recommend getting used to fzf, but also using the commands listed here: github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim. It makes it so easy to open files and find things across multiple files, especially if you bind them to a key.
I don't know if spacevim sets up binds for fzf, but open Vim in a directory with your project, then type :Files and then start fuzzy typing for a file you want to open. Normally you would map :Files to a key so it's only 1 key press away.
Also for find / replace, there's a few shortcuts you can do to make it really easy to replace things in the selection, the whole file or multiple files. This isn't related to fzf.
Like, all you do is select a phrase, hit a hotkey to find all the spots where it's used, then hit another hot key to initialize a replace and start typing your replacement term. Some of these binds are in my vimrc.
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I agree that Vim is mostly a text editor and not an IDE, so I can't figure out how a developer can be as productive with Vim as with an IDE.
I would love being able to develop a real project with Vim, but the few tries I gave to it with PHP or Go projects have failed. When it comes to refactoring, find-and-replace is not enough.
I know about LSP and most of the IDE are using them as Vim does, but IMO it's not enough to have an acceptable developer experience. Or maybe, as you said, it's a new technology and it's not ready to use.
I also know about fzf plugin, because I use SpaceVim, but I never really tried it.
What I saw from SpaceVim sounds very, very exciting, so maybe some day it will be working great.
I highly recommend getting used to fzf, but also using the commands listed here: github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim. It makes it so easy to open files and find things across multiple files, especially if you bind them to a key.
I don't know if spacevim sets up binds for fzf, but open Vim in a directory with your project, then type
:Filesand then start fuzzy typing for a file you want to open. Normally you would map:Filesto a key so it's only 1 key press away.Also for find / replace, there's a few shortcuts you can do to make it really easy to replace things in the selection, the whole file or multiple files. This isn't related to fzf.
Like, all you do is select a phrase, hit a hotkey to find all the spots where it's used, then hit another hot key to initialize a replace and start typing your replacement term. Some of these binds are in my vimrc.