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Felix Fong • Edited

๐Ÿ‘‹ I have been using VSCode with Vim extensions for a good couple of years now, and I have been successfully and happily switch to full Vim(neo) for the pass 5+ months . And to my surprise that VSC and Vim can be quite similar with little to no config at all ๐ŸŽ‰

And as for file navigation with ctl/cmd + p, there is a vim extension call Ctrlp github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim

Hope it helps ๐Ÿ˜„

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sakethk

There is plugin called Telescope u can try that. U will like it

github.com/nvim-telescope/telescop...

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Ben Sinclair

That's only for neovim, though. Other plugins like vim-fzf will work on regular vim too and give you a lot of the same functionality.

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Turutupa

Nice, I'll check it out. I just feel like without a fast an easy way of switching between files it's a no go for me. This one seems like a good one though, thx for sharing :)

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Luke Inglis

Something a lot of new Vim users don't know about is the c-^ mapping which allows you to jump back and forth between the two most recently visited buffers. Added bonus the most recent buffers are local to windows/splits.

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Felix Fong

I believe in VSCโ€™ Vim itโ€™s mapped to the ctl+i keybind๐Ÿค”

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Turutupa

didn't know about c-^ ! that's a good one, thanks!