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Discussion on: I'm switching to vim!

 
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Valentin Baca

Thanks. I see: I just never saw "editing" as separate from "coding" or that "coding" only meant when it was written the first time.

To me it's just all coding and all editing.

Personally, I used to be a vim power user, and I'm still glad I learned it and still use it very often. However, as my primary editor, VS Code has really taken over for me.

Compared to vim, with VS Code I've never lost a file or even a single edit, I don't have to mess with swap or backup files.

But like others have said, they're tools. They're not religions. Pick the best for the situation and there's no harm in learning something new.

You can checkout my ~/.vimrc here: github.com/valbaca/dotfiles/blob/m...

And my "virc" which is a more minimal vimrc here: github.com/valbaca/dotfiles/blob/m...

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Siddharth

Yeah the swap file thing is real. It's happened to me a few times