On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 11:28:35 UTC, Anonymouse wrote:
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 12:11:14 UTC, Petar Kirov
[ZombineDev] wrote:
vim or SublimeText
I want to get into vim. It has to be vim, can't be Neovim or
gvim or any other clone; I'm doing it for a Linux class. I'm on
Arch Linux (or Manjaro), so I have plenty available from the
official repos and plenty more from the user AUR repos.
The wiki page on vim[1] lists several plugins which I assume
are mutually exclusive. DSnips[2] was very easy to install by
just installing UltiSnips and placing d.snippets in its
appropriate place, but it seems to only provide, as the name
suggests, boilerplate snippets. Dutyl[3] seems much more
interesting but also more daunting, considering that my vim
knowledge so far largely consists of :wq and :q!.
Are those the two alternatives available to me?
[1]: https://wiki.dlang.org/D_in_Vim
[2]: https://github.com/kiith-sa/DSnips
[3]: https://github.com/idanarye/vim-dutyl
To be honest, I'm not the right one to ask. I prefer vim (to be
specific, now I use Neovim, though not to the level that I can
tell difference :D) mainly because it works inside the terminal,
it's easy to use (well, after I learned it), offers a ton a
customization, requires no complex setup and I can find it on
almost any machine.
I don't use any D specific plugins, the D syntax file that's
included in the default installation is good enough for me. A
couple of years ago I was into setting up IDEs and language
specific plugins on editors, but nowadays I just don't bother.
My advice would be to start a basic vim installation, learn the
difference between the different modes (normal, insert, visual,
terminal - specific to nvim, etc.), learn the basic normal mode
commands, windows splitting, macros, and so on. The best way to
learn vim is to make it your default editor so that you're forced
to be proficient with it. At first your productivity will be
quite low, because you will be constantly looking basic stuff up,
but after a while it will become part of your muscle memory, just
like Ctrl+A/Z/X/C/V are probably now. There are plenty of good
guides to follow, e.g.:
http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2012/03/21/why-vim/
https://scotch.io/tutorials/getting-started-with-vim-an-interactive-guide
https://gist.github.com/bpierre/0a0025d348b6001394e0
https://danielmiessler.com/study/vim/#gs.rvBIWrI
