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How to quit VIM? (szmer.info)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by lemmur@szmer.info to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
 

First of all. This is not another "how do I exit vim?" shitpost.

I've been using (neo)vim for about two years and I started to notice, that I,m basically unable to use non-vim editors. I do not code a lot, but I write a lot of markown. I'd like to use dedicated tools for this, but their vim emulators are so bad. So I'm now stuck with my customized neovim, devoid of any hope of abandoning this strange addiction.

Any help or advice?

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[–] truenekomancer@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Switch to emacs with evil-mode https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil. You get best of both: nice operating system with build in vim.

[–] lemmur@szmer.info 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I considered heresy and switching churches, but Lisp and rumours of multiple bugs kept me on the vim side

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

I always would recommend people to switch to emacs. It is truly a wonderfully transformative experience. But in your case, the question is why do you want to quit using (n)vim?

[–] ricdeh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

The only reasonable choice!

[–] furikuri@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

I switched to (Doom)-Emacs from a ~7yr old homegrown Vim config last week and honestly the configuration is less bad than it seems. If you're mainly writing markdown you'll probably get 99% of the way there by just enabling the dedicated module

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