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diff --git a/content/stream/2023_05_15.md b/content/stream/2023_05_15.md index 02e58dd..85ad63c 100644 --- a/content/stream/2023_05_15.md +++ b/content/stream/2023_05_15.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ title: "2023_05_15" date: 2023-05-15T16:56:53+01:00 draft: false -tags: ['vscode', 'linux'] +tags: ['vscode', 'linux', 'vim'] --- After many years of slagging off VSCode and being a total vim snob (and oftentimes an Emacs snob - even worse), today I did a big switch to VSCode. @@ -11,4 +11,12 @@ Reasons: - Neovim - I was pulled in by the most recent hype, mainly on YouTube, and the promise of a Lua-saturated nirvana. Lua does look pretty cool and Neovim is clearly a good editor once you trick it out, but tricking it out was the problem... Too much work. VSCode does most of it anyway. - The terminal. Managing two main work computers, on two different operating systems (Arch and Debian, having ditched NixOS recently, [as promised](https://yulqen.org/blog/quietly_moving_on_from_nixos/)), I've spent quite a lot of time recently getting my *terminal* in good shape. I've come to realise that life is a little too short to be back-and-forthing it between st, xterm (both of which have esoteric configuration requirements to say the least), gnome and alacritty. I just want to be able to Ctrl+V to paste into a buffer/file/window. -- VSCode is pretty good. I don't like Electron, but I'll live with it. It's just snappy enough. Plus, with some minimal configuration, I can translate most of my primciple vim bindings over.
\ No newline at end of file +- VSCode is pretty good. I don't like Electron, but I'll live with it. It's just snappy enough. Plus, with some minimal configuration, I can translate most of my primciple vim bindings over. + +--- + +> "Vim has been a faithful companion to me since I switched off Windows many years ago and found myself in Terminal.app, and then Linux, where it *shone*. +> +> gvim. vi. vim. Neovim. A thousand vimrcs and editing text "at the speed of thought". Thank you for that. +> +> Fuck you, vim."
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