VI key binds are genius, a very very cool way to manage all the things with the keyboard...
...and you can use it in other terminal apps (fish shell, ranger, etc), text editors (obsidian, VS Code, Notepad++), IDEs (Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Eclipse, etc), web browsers (Vimium), Windows Managers (Hammerspoon, Komorebi, i3wm and a lot of more in Linux).
VI/Neovim are very customizable editors, you can do (almost) anything with them, and if you struggle with the configuration there is distros like NVChad or LunarVim with all the things out of the box.
So, even if you don't want to use vim/neovim as your main editor, when you learn VI, you can enjoy/take advantage of VI.. :)
I feel a bit the same, I'm currently working on my own Vim setup because I would like to have full knowledge of all the parts and how they work, and I would like something lighter than the distros, but for now I use LunarVim to get the job done.
Do you have your Vim/Neovim dotfiles somewhere? It's always inspiring to read other's setup :)
VI key binds are genius, a very very cool way to manage all the things with the keyboard...
...and you can use it in other terminal apps (fish shell, ranger, etc), text editors (obsidian, VS Code, Notepad++), IDEs (Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Eclipse, etc), web browsers (Vimium), Windows Managers (Hammerspoon, Komorebi, i3wm and a lot of more in Linux).
VI/Neovim are very customizable editors, you can do (almost) anything with them, and if you struggle with the configuration there is distros like NVChad or LunarVim with all the things out of the box.
So, even if you don't want to use vim/neovim as your main editor, when you learn VI, you can enjoy/take advantage of VI.. :)
Thanks for letting me know all this stuff. Specially about the distro.
i was super excited about lunarvim, but eventually went back to my custom vim set up if for no other reason than it was what i was familiar with.
for people just getting into vim or people who aren't stuck in their ways (like me!), though, lunar is probably going to be awesome.
I feel a bit the same, I'm currently working on my own Vim setup because I would like to have full knowledge of all the parts and how they work, and I would like something lighter than the distros, but for now I use LunarVim to get the job done.
Do you have your Vim/Neovim dotfiles somewhere? It's always inspiring to read other's setup :)
i don't know if i'd call it "inspiring", but it's here:
github.com/gbhorwood/vimrc/blob/ma...