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This has led users to literally turn Atom into Vim, unable to let go of the past, unwilling to fully embrace the future of code editing. Most importantly for users who didn’t start coding in the last five years, there is a Vim Mode package. It has cross-platform editing, four UIs, eight syntax themes and integrates with HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and Node.js. Atom is a free, open-source text editor that bills itself as being “hackable to the core,” allowing for multiple customizations. Take Atom, one of the more popular IDEs/editors. Vim has a small footprint, low latency, fast startup, allows for more screen space, customizable and most importantly, once the muscle-memory has been ingrained, it’s nearly impossible to switch to something else.Ĭontinues Carter: “Our fingers are often the bottleneck between thinking up code and getting it in the app, so that’s where folks look to optimize shortcuts.” It seems silly but that kind of pivot takes energy.” I got the job, a family, and side projects. It takes energy to pivot to a new editor.

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On an emotional and professional level, I can’t really afford that. “Since then it’s become a question of ‘code speed.’ If I start with a new IDE or even switch to something like Emacs, I’ll slow down.

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“The reason I avoided IDEs to begin with was that back when I was getting into Vim, like a decade ago, it was an extra license to look into,” says Vim user John Carter (not of Mars). It’s the same reason I am still using Notepad to compose and not some fancy text editor or CMS tool.

As my father would attest, using his Microsoft Zune long after its support ran out, if it ain’t broke… While there are many IDEs on the market, there’s no reason to use one if you don’t have to use one. The consensus among many Vim/Emacs users creates a picture many tech users from a certain generation would be familiar with. Vim and Emacs users, once at each other’s throats, seem to have implemented each other’s keybindings (a thing they actually do) to take on a common enemy - any modern IDE. It’s less a war at this point than a grumbling shuffle of ingrained habit and stubborn resistance to change. The endless war between Vim and Emacs users has continued ad nauseam over the years. And, though we hate to say it, both have reached a point where neither seems to really want to fade off into the sunset. Both are used in coding, editing, and administering systems. Emacs, as we well know, is a “maze of twisty little passages, all different,” (an old programmer’s joke that came from the game Colossal Cave Adventure) while Vim (and Vi before it) offers an arrow-controlled universe of keyboard shortcuts. The origins of this war harken back to Usenet groups in the 1980s, a time when Vi and Emacs were the primary tools used for coding. We love what we grew up with, be it Star Trek jokes, Vim, or Emacs. Like a dog refusing to walk on wet grass, there always seemed to be a bit of resistance to changing up a routine. I’m not really a fan of going crazy and totally customizing hotkeys in Vscode just because it makes support much harder but in this case it was easy enough and works really well with my workflow.Developers are a finicky bunch. This menu is also really useful for just discovering all of the different keyboard shortcuts in Vscode. Just click in the “Toggle Side Bar Visibility” box and remap the keybinding to Ctrl+Shift+B (since that doesn’t get used by anything by default in Vim). Once the keyboard shortcuts have been pulled open just do a search for “sidebar” and you should see the default key binding.

Or by using the command pallet (ctrl + shift + p) and searching for “keyboard shortcut”. To do this, pull open the keyboard shortcuts by either navigating to File -> Preferences -> Keyboard shortcuts The solution is a simple hotkey remap for the keyboard shortcut in Vscode. Obviously this makes behavior is the default for Vim but it also is annoying to not be able to open and close the sidebar. In vim, the shortcut for this toggle is actually used to scroll the page buffer up one screen. As far as I can tell, this glitch doesn’t exist in the OSX version of Vscode.

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There is an annoying behavior that you might run across in the Windows version of Vscode if you are using the Vsvim plugin when trying to use the default hotkey to toggle the sidebar open and closed.

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