wiki/vim

vim the text editor


vim mode

https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/787396077045415936
I tried a very popular editor's Vim mode after hearing praise. It's missing tons of common keystrokes. Reminder: "Vim mode" is always a lie.

https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/787397478618247168
Maybe @tpope will build a Vim mode for some other editor some day; until then, unfortunately there is only one text editor.

https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/902955511032668160
Vim is 442,929 lines of C. That's all editor (Vim isn't an operating system like Emacs). "Vim for VS Code" is 18,870 lines of TypeScript.
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https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/902955632579379200
There is no such thing as Vim emulation. No one has ever recreated the behavior of that four hundred thousand lines of code.
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https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/902956107429117953
Vim doesn't mean hjkl. Vim is a state machine on a scale so large that it takes years of regular use to even realize how huge it is!
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(Thead goes on.)


.vimrc musings

scrolljump over scrolloff.