Not sure criticizing people for wanting to stick with whats fastest and easiest for them to use makes any sense. It stands on the shoulders of giants and improves what needs improving. 117 comments. It’s all about how people program. With the appropriate extensions, it’s as good an IDE as VSCode. Man is it fast. Emacs is the Unix Philosophy taken to the ultimate extreme – it does one thing and does it well. It was an eye-opener to the speed I could reach while editing code. I think the core reason people don’t abandon Emacs or Vim is that today with plugins they can do 90% of what a modern IDE like intellij / VS Code can do but without having to have one hand off your keyboard and lose typing efficiency. From the outset, it’s clear this person doesn’t like Vim/Emacs or their users. i hear a lot that neovim is better that vim. We have to be button clickers. Each community benefits from each other. Vim is a modal editor which means you can perform any command directly with the keyboard. Very tiny script to be honest. She may give it a try, only to find that she’s an amateur at it and it would take years of her life to become as expert as she already is on the violin. Steep learning curve, but so worth it. At that stage, the important thing was learning how to write a program. BTW, thank you so much, COC creators! 1) An IDE isn’t just an *integrated* set of tools; it’s an *opinionated* choice of tools. Both Vim and Neovim work fantastically. It’s like a text manipulation *engine*, where you build up text transformation tools on the fly, quickly, intuitively, that you’d otherwise have to write custom code to do. Still I clumsily “miss notes” occasionally and wind up off in the weeds accidentally. years now. When I search for this I get a lot of information about reloading the vimrc, but not so much about reloading neovims init.vim. But there’s no need to wait. I have it set up as a full fledged c++ ide with vi key bindings. Here’s a hot take: Forcing vim into the role of an IDE is an aberration. This is why people who *like unix* know Vi, and often use VIM. I make use of Visual Studio Code as a notepad replacement or for small projects where the deliverable is more declarative than procedural (terraform, docker compose). And, so, she goes back to the violin.¹ People write blog posts about how she’s in a “raging war” with progress, but she doesn’t actually care: she just wants to enjoy making music again. Back to IDEs. That said, if you’re new to programming, a modern IDE could be helpful. Emacs is arguably one of the most powerful things ever developed, and I can make it do anything I want by writing Lisp. (And just think of spacemacs, or neovim.) People bash VIM because they’re too lazy to learn it. It has cross-platform editing, four UIs, eight syntax themes and integrates with HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and Node.js. I would actually love to have more graybeards to pepper with questions but they’re all on irc and it’s too much hassle to keep that open when everything else is slack. I would like to know what gave you the feeling there was some hostility here, maybe I missed something. Like Jason Bourne in… well… Jason Bourne. The author has never taken a deep dive into VIM or EMACS. Emacs gives me the power to do a lot of the things other editors cannot, however those other editors don’t give me anything I can’t already do in emacs. Since the new IDEs don’t significantly increase productivity, why learn them? It’s also using a terrible javascript based environment which is slow, buggy, memory intensive and might well be considered a memory leak by design. SpaceVim says; here’s a visual menu that only appears when you activate it (by pressing Space), and then has one key for each choice and an arbitrary number of submenus. Yes, this only became the case fairly recently: asynchronous extensions landed with vim 8 in 2016, and the invention of the langserver protocol (https://langserver.org/) gives the ability to not have to have vim-specific extensions for each language. Storm for the big stories and Vim for the stories where I don't need special IDE features. I found “a grumbling shuffle of ingrained habit and stubborn resistance to change” quite offensive. Learn how your comment data is processed. The keybindings and configuration are the same as Vim… Because we want control over where our files go!!! So i started looking for something else. There is a disconnect between the knowledge of old Unix wizards and what the newcomers to Tech perceive as valuable. Vim can be that too, but I find it better to work the other way. Have you read the calc manual? It helps us generate more uniform coding. Yes, I was always frustrated by notepad (and edlin!!) I’m an old unix wizard and now rather out-of-touch with modern unix (aka Linux) – I learned vi long before I used Windows. I don't disagree with your thesis, but I should point out that I have been using Vim almost exclusively for almost six years now (well, NeoVim for 4 of those years), and my config is only about 40 lines, and most of it is just installing plugins for whatever languages I'm using. After a decade of using vim I switched to CLion and was very happy since it had vi key bindings. It wasn’t to be different, not knowing the ins and outs of what the rest of the team uses is certainly an annoyance; but when you get down to it, emacs just has too many killer features that others cannot complete with. My impression without look too deeply into it is that most of the differences are that Neovim tends to integrate a bit better with other tools you might use and that it can use Lua instead of Vimscript as a configuration language. I am a teenager, and I started programming with Notepad, then Sublime Text, then VS Code and now finally I have started using VIM. I love Emacs and have done for two decades – the key bindings and customisability has meant I invested deeply in it. Vim and Emacs are always there for you, cozy, calm and willing. I started learning emacs, from tutorial to intro to elisp. #4730) and some new features, but I'm not sure it's worth it to work on the custom command mode if the long-term goal is to integrate more strongly with Neovim anyway. There’s also the understated issue of making sure the resources you need are not being controlled or paywalled by any future entities. In the end, a lot of those programs end up on Stack Overflow piece by piece because of an edge case, a race condition, or simply wrong logic. vscode is nice, but it’s not “more modern” and it will never ever succeed vim. The keybindings and configuration are the same as Vim, so the switch can be pretty simple. B. Incredibly, I miss Windows EDIT very much. Did I miss something? After investigating, i found the reason was the ms python language server was taking nearly 6GB of ram. I think this is a bit harsh on vim. I think the difference is if a team is required to use an IDE then someone else has made this all work for them and only through the IDE can they get necessary resources. hide. Also; it’s not that I haven’t used modern IDE’s. This document is a complete and centralized reference of the differences. As a result, the list of secondary symptoms I’ve observed is telltale… Weird userspace tools and build flows end up being concocted to perform structural chores – we could easily segue from this topic to a study of the overlap between preference for monorepos and text-based puritans. It's easy to see the effect this has simply by comparing neovim's and vim's changelogs. I hate Google for suggesting this garbage article. Transitioned from BBEdit to vim a couple years ago. The new norm of inexperience with so many new people — who all kind of copy each other’s bad habits — is unfortunate, but it doesn’t mean there won’t always be companies producing really nice graphical IDEs for people to buy. Vim invented properly composable commands that are only now starting to get properly appreciated. There is a reason vim is still here and every other old editor is gone (yeah emacs has not a lot of users left). I started my programming career back in the early 1980’s. Contribute to ChristianChiarulli/nvim development by creating an account on GitHub. And emacs is an IDE. A couple lines more and you get Git control as well. This incited me to try Emacs, which is mostly (but not only) keyboard-driven. For Vim enthusiasts and anyone interested in Vim. If you’ve learned just enough to exit Vim, you’re arguing from a position of ignorance, which is obvious given the article. Vim plugins enhance the abilities of an IDE (ignoring some conflicting shortcuts ) by adding Vim’s unique modal way of editing – a way that many of us find more efficient than the mouse-bound default. The article is just entirely spouting off their ignorance of Vim and Emacs. I keep my vim configuration files (~/.vim folder) on GitHub and clone it on any system I have to work on. They’re not used simply because an older generation is used to using them, some antiquated editor existing only as a comfortable familiarity. Mid-range programmers sometimes use Emacs/Vim, sometimes IDEs. I dont really care what others find easier. Modern IDE’s by default present numerous visual distractions, and try to improve your productivity by guessing what you’re about to do next. async calls and built-in terminal). I had to use eglot for a python script as lsp was too slow or incomplete with any supported server for that script. That’s not to say there aren’t things they are superior at, but the main reason vim and emacs are still in widespread use is that, when is comes to text editing, they are the masters. Once the necessary in-depth knowledge is acquired, the use of IDEs become unnecessary: you can simply be more productive than most IDE-users using any other editor. I could even use different language server for different buffer even for the same language. Whatever war might be raging behind the screens of coders between Vim, Emacs, and IDEs really doesn’t matter. I started out using Brackets then Atom then VS Code now Neovim which is far from outdated. It is always `action subject`. I have always been shocked at how little people who edit code for a living know about their editor — regardless which editor they choose. Many modern developers do not understand how or what git actually does, they just press the button and it’s done for them, (That’s not necessarily bad or wrong; I think it depends on their role). I’ll start off by mentioning that I use IDEs over Vim or Emacs most of the time. Not just a clutch of text files that are fulfilling their purpose out of sheer coincidence, forever accruing complexity as changes are incrementally piled on in haste. I tried NeoVim a few time ago, and came back to Vim8. I would suggest checking out spacemacs as an easy starting point. There are advantages and disadvantages to everything and there are no exceptions. If your answer is more than 0 you’re doing it wrong and you need to learn a bit before stating an uninformed opinion. Most Vim users nowadays are actually those transitioning from the “so-called” modern IDE such visual studio and so on. “With code completion, Git control, and even automatic deployment systems”. And even then, I doubt you’d get the same level of scriptability/extensibility, since to automate stuff using the add-on you’d have to have the source for the plugin or external helper and mod it directly rather than being able to just write code in your editor’s personal space that utilizes it. I find it interesting how SpaceVim has made this attempt to get the best of both worlds. It was too much trouble to keep it working just for myself, so I stuck with emacs. This is really weird. Neovim is for users who want to make the best of Vim through a new plug-in system, better GUI architecture, first-class embedding support, and more. Summary. The older editors are too archaic and have key bindings and design constraints based on limitations of the eras when they were developed. Even VS Code was weirdly slow. What a ridiculous article. To grasp the nature of that you need to read between lines in the mind of their creators, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernigan, and others. Also, I am not a dinosaur, I’m 27 years old, and I took the time to learn VIM to be more ergonomic. Additionally: Muscle memory works both for you and against you – some people have no idea how irritating it is when programs like Gimp will not open a file when you press ALT F O but fail to take your finger off the ALT key before pressing the O. Clueless. I use vim, any IDE is incomplete to me without either vim emulation or an nvim connection. Or, as the popular 20th century poets TLC so deftly declared, “Don’t go chasing waterfalls, please stick to the Vims and Emacs that you’re used to.”. Probably that’s also because vim is always where I need it (or installed in seconds). Then I changed positions and couldn’t use CLion any more. Modern IDEs are indeed amazing (always have been, really). Podcast 263: turning our employees into Stack users, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor), https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with-vim, https://github.com/acakojic/.dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/configuration/global-commands.el, https://medium.com/@SaravSun/running-gui-applications-inside-docker-containers-83d65c0db110. The reason programmers like me still use it is because it’s a text editor written by programmers for programming. I wouldn’t necessarily call VS Code a “modern IDE”. It’s not remaking the IDE in Vim’s image, rather just adding a bundle of helpful shortcuts. you are being a bit condescending toward the modern IDE’s and today’s developers, you ‘re pontificating from your comfort zone worn out like an old shoe. Second, crucially, Vim’s editing model is *portable*. I’ve been working professionally for about 6 months now. I don’t use an IDE these days, but when I started programming (Java, using JBuilder) the IDE provided a nice leg-up. This article makes the mistaken assumption that you wouldn’t have code-completion and static analysis running in the background with vim. It takes time to adjust that world, to play god, to create shortcuts and hotkeys, to get used to different command structures and UI. In fact most people I know making the switch are young developers. These features aren't used by the "vim minimalists" on this specific subreddit and at every possible turn they will tell you that neovim is the devil's lettuce. I think you’re vastly underestimating how configurable Neovim/Vim and Emacs are. The extension is using full embedded neovim instance as backend (with the exception of the insert mode and window/buffer/file management), no more half-complete VIM emulation Still, through extensions, vim offers autocomplete, code actions, refactoring, syntax highlighting, linting and the like. For everything else? They are fallbacks. All of the GUI features are just noise and inefficiency from my perspective. I didn’t code on/for a Unix/Linux platform until 2015, and that was only for 2 years. I can open archives in Vim (integrated file manager), I can use Vim without GUI (in tty, ssh). The i found visual studio code, and i thought, wow, its great, i have finally found something simple but feature rich or at least has the features i need. But i think i am gonna be stuck with emacs and i will keep loving it. So i learned vi. I’m not saying that is necessarily the truth either, but the article sure doesn’t succeed at convincing me otherwise even though it really wants to. This is a bit like suggesting a Latex user that the future of text publishing is Microsoft Word. As coders’ careers evolve less through their expertise than who is signing their paychecks, there is always a constant code editor available to them regardless of which IDE the company prefers. Neovim is a Vim-based text editor engineered for extensibility and usability, to encourage new applications and contributions. However, to just say that vim, emacs, nano, etc are outdated points to a somewhat narrow perspective on the issue. For me Emacs is the application platform, unified environment: each key press is a programmable customizable command. It’s an amazing plugin. Some are OK, some are great. I will share my own experience as i am a new comer to emacs world and i had been using other IDE/Editors for years. And it’s important to note that Neovim isn’t turning Vim into an IDE. NeoVim was a complete rewrite of Vim, with new features added and underlying issues resolved thanks to the Vim code base. Vim is actually more powerful IMO then most modern IDEs out there due to its approach to text and actions. assuming the tool you’re even *has* keystrokes for those things (a lot of tools have poor/anemic editing models). Doesn’t have time to learn a new editor that could potentially make his life a lot easier. For what it’s worth, I’m currently using VS Code. I believe neovim is a welcome change, much needed to keep the project managable. Same reason some people will press ‘x’ until all the characters on the line are gone, and then ‘dd’. Will – I’m curious… Why did you decide to ditch VS Code and revert to a more primitive text-based environment? tl;dr: Vim is a superior and portable editing model available in a huge number modern tools. VSCode (VSC) and VIM are my two main editors. Well, why not just an IDE then? I use Vim inside Visual Studio. Even the ones with vim keybindings only emulate the approach and will never be as good and mighty in it. It already has the maximum degree of git integration possible. 87% Upvoted. I don’t care. The speed and mental resting you get from using vim is and always will be worth the investment. The Overflow Blog Have better meetings—in person or remote. Author makes a lot of baseless claims. The same goes for autocompletion, finding references etc. Uhm, screen latency? I can’t tell you how I’m happy with this. I have yet to not find support for a language or an environment while working with vim. After discovering neovim, I decided to write a new rc file for it based on my vim config, the sensible-vim project and a few other resources I found on the topic. 3. Neovim vs Vim. I’ve noticed it’s a hobby of programmers and sysadmins I know to waste a lot of time complaining about not having access to their pimped up editors/environments. Rather, I think the big divide is more of a philosophical approach; do you want it to do everything for you? You forgot one thing – each developer has different needs. Until something else provides all of the flexibility and power that emacs does, then I don’t see any reason to use them. For another thing, vim vs emacs is a meme that does not really reflect reality. That’s not true for me and I’m sure many others. I wanted to rename them to 2019-01-02-IMG, 2020-03-02-DSC, etc. I say: try booth of them, and use the one you find better for yourself. So the “you’re used to” point in the post is wrong. The only thing Neovim is missing is a tagged stable release. Others have their entire build infrastructure locally. Nowadays I use the Vim VDebug plugin. ... and rely completely on Google / StackOverflow for help. But a typical user would not care if "shada" format differs from "viminfo". It may work a bit different but in the end gets the same result. When I began to study programming, using vim for that as well came naturally, but I have been open to alternatives. If you like a classic IDEs experience, look at Doom Emacs https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs or if you are familiar with vim then https://www.spacemacs.org/ Personally, I use vanilla Emacs (it has all IDE features that I use and more). 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