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Federico Ramirez • Edited

There are lots of plugins you can use for finding files. The most popular right now is fzf, give it a shot, I'm sure it can beat your VSCode workflow in a few days of customization/learning :P

I personally use ctrlp + ripgrep

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Turutupa

oh man... I thought it would never be possible to fully move to vim... but someone shared me lunarvim (github.com/ChristianChiarulli/Luna...) which comes with telescope and it is a beast

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Federico Ramirez

Prebuilt configurations are great for getting started. Once you are used to it, maybe after a few years, consider trying to customize it and remove what you don't need/want. Read the documentation and learn if there's a way you can replace a plugin with just native Vim functionality. And eventually, try writing your own config from scratch. That's where Vim shines. But it's not an easy process ^^;

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Turutupa

Totally agree. Some people suggest to start from scratch your own config, but I feel like it has been a way better introduction to vim using pre-built configs than having to create one myself without understanding a thing. At least now I have a decent notion from the time I've spent setting up lunarvim + tweaking some stuff to accommodate to my needs.