• stetech@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 day ago

        To you, @toothpaste_ostrich@feddit.nl, and anyone else planning to do the switch:

        Back when I was still a VSC(odium) user, you needed to perform a small tweak to regain access to the quite useful extensions marketplace (in the sense of, paste the extension ID, see the same results as a M$ VSCode user*): There is a file named product.json which allows you to “regain” access if you populate it with the following values:

        {
  "extensionsGallery": {
    "serviceUrl": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery",
    "itemUrl": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items",
    "cacheUrl": "https://vscode.blob.core.windows.net/gallery/index",
    "controlUrl": ""
  }
}

        (Taken from my old dotfiles, so this may be outdated, not sure. Also, you’ll have to look up the location of this file, it will differ depending on OS. On macOS it goes in ~/Library/Application Support/VSCodium.)

        *If you do not need this 1:1 identical functionality, you may try the Open VSX marketplace. But especially in a class setting, I found this very useful, since all the tutorials/instructions will work without needing adaptation.

  • udon@lemmy.world
    20·
    13 days ago

    tbh, one of the essential things vim gets right for me is that it’s designed as a text editor, not (only) a code editor. I use it for so much non-code text as well, but it feels weird opening a coding tool for such things.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      61·
      13 days ago

      It’s great to use an editor designed and built when vietnam and leaded gas were all the rage.

  • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.org
    238·
    13 days ago

    Have been a professional software engineer for 8 years now. Have yet to find a reason to use vim for anything (other than availability of course, but if nano isn’t installed for some godforsaken reason I have other problems lol).

    • toynbee@lemmy.world
      281·
      13 days ago

      I’ve been in various forms of coding and administration for around fifteen years now. Despite trying lots of editors, I have yet to find a reason to use anything but vim.

      I do like obsidian for note taking.

      edit: Removed typo.

    • AntY@lemmy.world
      111·
      13 days ago

      Vim is a way more competent editor than nano. If you spend a lot of time editing files via ssh, vim is amazing. And when you get bitten by it, you’re infected. ;-)

    • Bo7a@lemmy.ca
      5·
      13 days ago

      Fair. But to a sysadmin or devops engineer availability is pretty important.

    • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
      5·
      13 days ago

      I used to think this way. Until I found that with emacs you can edit any file on an SSH enabled computer remotely. Meaning that not only are you no longer constrained by what the computer has installed. But you can use your personality configured editor while editing that file. It’s called tramp.

      BTW, with Emacs you can use vim key bindings evil-mode, so don’t stress about that.

      • folkrav@lemmy.ca
        8·
        13 days ago

        Tramp is more featured, but if all one cares about is being able to edit remote files using a local editor, vim can edit remote files with scp too: scp://user@server[:port]//remote/file.txt

        I tried tramp-mode at some point, but I seem to remember some gotchas with LSP and pretty bleh latency, which didn’t make it all that useful to me… But I admittedly didn’t spend much time in emacs land.

      • calcopiritus@lemmy.world
        4·
        13 days ago

        You can do that with vscode too. And probably many IDEs.

        The only real reason for which you would need to use vim in such cases is if the target computer can’t run the vscode server, which I’ve never encountered yet.

        • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
          3·
          13 days ago

          I’m talking about not needing anything installed on the server though. Like you don’t need sudo. If the server has ssh then you can use Emacs to edit a file on it

          • calcopiritus@lemmy.world
            3·
            13 days ago

            Don’t need sudo or anything pre installed for vscode either. It will send the server to the machine via SSH and then run it automagically.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
    13·
    13 days ago

    I plan on moving to a nice Neovim setup eventually, but VSCodium is so convenient out of the box for a baby developer like me.

    • Integrate777@discuss.online
      5·
      13 days ago

      You’ll be glad to know that the difficulty comes from the syntax and very little from any programming skill level. You learn new ways of writing certain code structures like indented curly braces for example. Programming python might be easier than cpp in vim, not due to the language, but just cpp having more complex syntax to type.

      Tldr, almost exactly the same amount of effort whether you’ve been coding for two weeks or two years.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    9·
    13 days ago

    It always surprises me how complicated some of the editor tooling sounds in threads like this. Obviously once you learn how to use these things they are powerful, but how do people have the patience to deal with all of that in the beginning? This is coming from a guy who writes scripts constantly to avoid doing tedious, error-prone things.

    Also I keep seeing people say vscode is slow. One of the reasons I switched to it is that it’s insanely fast compared to other editors I used (even those with far-inferior featuresets) 🤷‍♂️

  • phoneymouse@lemmy.world
    102·
    13 days ago

    My professor was always trying to get us to use vim or eMacs over an IDE to write our C programs. I’m sorry, I like using a mouse. I know, I know, blasphemy. I’m taking a shortcut. I’m a noob.

    When I absolutely have to, I go for vim, mostly because I know a few of the key bindings for it, but otherwise avoid it.

    • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
      71·
      13 days ago

      I’m taking a shortcut

      more like a longcut. I save so much time and effort not having to switch my right hand between the mouse and keyboard constantly

      • phoneymouse@lemmy.world
        82·
        13 days ago

        I keep my hands on my laptop and use my thumb on the track pad. My hands don’t leave the keyboard. I actually never use extra mice or extra keyboards.

  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
    91·
    13 days ago

    I would argue that vim is fantastic for a lot of editing and coding tasks, just not all of them.

    Where it utterly fails is with deep trees of files in codebases, like you see in Java or some Javascript/Typescript apps. Even with a robust suite of add-ons, you wind up backing into full-bore IDE territory to manage that much filesystem complexity. Only difference is that navigating and managing a large file tree w/o a mouse is kind of torture.

    • ivn@jlai.lu
      11·
      13 days ago

      Fuzzy finding really shine for this use case, no need for a mouse.