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Discussion on: Using Vim as your main editor for web development

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Dustin Sandage • Edited

In a larger project, if you need to alter every instance of a given function call, "sed" and "awk" are available. If you just need a recursive listing of these instances, use "grep".

Of course, with efficient design this shouldn't come up very often.

As for keeping the scope and structure of a large project in mind, that's a pretty personal thing. If one is familiar with the structure of large projects and it isn't horribly maintained, the process can become quite intuitive. Like learning a new spoken language: there are certain norms that, once understood, make picking up languages a lot simpler.

In either case, why the 'tude dude?

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FidelVe

All of the people that so far argue about not using Vim, seems to me that they are not Linux users, everything they think cannot be made with Vim is just a couple of commands away in a terminal.

There's nothing and IDE can do that tmux+Vim won't accomplish more efficiently.