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I'm trying out Obsidian for taking notes, and this made me laugh.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Vim really is an IDE, not a text editor. It's usable as an editor but overkill.

Nano serves a difference purpose. It's like telling someone on a bike that a mustang is better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

So like Word vs Notepad?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Vim is absolutely not an IDE. It has no integrations with any language. It's just a powerful text editor. You can add language plugins and configure it to be an IDE.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yea, vim really isn't anything near how useful emacs is.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Emacs really is powerful, all it needs now is a decent text editor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It has one. It's called evil-mode.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (3 children)

No offense intended here - But why is this being upvoted?

vim absolutely is an IDE if that is how you want to use it. Syntax highlighting, linter, language specific autocomplete, integrated sed/regex. And much, much more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You can't run and debug things in vim, can you?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

my car is absolutely a boat if you put a boat motor on the back of it and waterproof it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Syntax highlighting, linting, and language specific autocomplete are features supported by plugins and scripts. Plain, simple vim is a powerful extensible text editor. The extensibility makes it easy to turn into an IDE.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's syntax highlighting by default in vim though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Yeah, there is a generic syntax highlighting scheme. I had forgotten because it's not very good for some languages, I'd replaced it with a LSP-based implementation years ago.