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Show her you know how to exit vim and she’ll instantly be naked and on the bed
:q!
Maybe your wife is either VSCode or Atom gang
immediate divorce /s
“nothing fancy” that’s the issue, just some jumping won’t impress her; you gotta do the real crazy shit. Friggin “wife not impressed by my cooking? I make a hard boiled egg and she isn’t impressed”
jumping won’t impress her
Unless it’s jump humping.
He should have installed neovim with LSPs for Python/Rust/etc for intellisense and linting to really get her all hot and bothered.
:q!
I’m sorry but your wife won’t be impressed by basic vim motions. You need to learn some more advanced motions to get her wet.
Guy shoulda tried emacs instead, wife is probably an elitist
As someone who’s been a software developer for over a decade and in IT even longer, I still don’t use vi/vim for anything other than when crontabs have it set as the editor.
alias vi=nano
You can set your default editor (maybe in .bashrc or .bash_profile? I forget), but I’m far too lazy.
export EDITOR=nano.But (neo)vim is amazing so there is no need to do that.
Based nano user
From my .zshrc (typing this on mobile so cope if it’s wrong)
case "$OSTYPE" in linux*) export EDITOR=nano ;; freebsd*) export EDITOR=ee ;;I guess shell languages can’t do this:
export EDITOR=case "$OSTYPE" in linux*) nano ;; freebsd*) ee ;;That would be too smart. Smells like kotlin’s when
Put backticks around the entire case statement, and you can.
I transfer all my files over to a Windows machine and edit them in Notepad
Honestly if you don’t use vim motions in your ide of choice, you’re missing out big time. Being able to do things like “Delete everything inside these parentheses”.
di(or “wrap this line and the two lines below r in a pair of {}”ys2j{, or “swap this parameter with the next one”cxia]a.with a single shortcut is game changing.Even just being able to repeat an action a number of times is ridiculously useful. I use relative line numbers, so I can see how many lines away a target is and just go “I need to move down 17 lines” and hit
17j.Absolutely insane how much quicker it is too do stuff with vim motions than ctrl-shift-arrows and the like
Only if you use a qwerty keyboard, otherwise it’s just annoying as shit
Absolutely insane how much quicker it is too do stuff with vim motions than ctrl-shift-arrows and the like
Those tasks are a very small part of work time, so most people don’t feel the need to optimize it.
As a software dev, they’re significant parts of what I do
Are you one of those rare developers who spend most of their day actually coding?
Yes, absolutely. And I refuse to let my day be anything else! :-)
That’s really neat, but I don’t think I do that often enough to really make the performance hit of learning a whole new thing and memorizing keyboard shortcuts and commands worth it. I don’t find myself refactoring code a ton, especially after moving to a more TDD-like model.
It’s less about refactoring and more about navigation of your code while editing. Ever wanted to delete a single word?
dawdeletes the word your cursor is currently in. How about "copy everything up to (but not including) the nearest “D” on the current line?yfD.The whole point is that editing code in the middle of writing it, not just refactoring it, is immensely faster.
You might’ve moved around too quickly. Stick to motion in the home row to start - hjkl. There are several ways to enter insert mode but DO NOT attempt it before she’s familiar with the basic motions.
Switch to emacs
:q!
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Edit: Has nobody actually tried doing this before downvoting? It saves and quits :/
Hey at least you showed her your vim and not your nano or micro
This relationship can be saved as long as the guy’s wife does not start expressing an interest in Emacs. That would, of course, put an end to the relationship, but if she’s one of those “Notepad is all I need” types, there is hope this can be worked through.
Maybe she already evolved past vim to kakoune. 😎
and evolved past kakoune to helix
You made me look up helix again after a few years and it’s gotten pretty sick actually. I might main it for a while to see how it fairs. It’s fairly similar to kakoune of course, but it’ll take a while to get all the modes into my muscle memory. The similar actions are in different modes and there are many more modes in helix as far as I can tell. But it’s cool, looking forward to experimenting.
I actually went, emacs -> vim -> helix -> kakoune.
I went helix -> vim -> emacs -> kakoune -> neovim, super interesting to see how people’s experiences differ
Emacs can do that obviously. And everything else.
C-dto initiate a divorce. So convenient.However with Vim she won’t know how to quit.
Do you really want to be with someone who cant quit vim?
Relevant xkcd
