crosus.blogg.se - Sublime vim mode

At month endĪt the end of a month with Vim, I felt at the point of no return. I’ll document some of those challenges and workarounds for interested parties but any reader merely interested in where I was at, efficiency wise, having used Vim solidly for a month, I’ll do my best to summarise that now. vimrc (the gateway to Vim sanity) became a daily ritual. Although the utter “Help me I’m drowning” feeling of the first week had gone, every day required some investigation to solve a problem the ‘Vim way’. “When you’re going through hell, keep going”Īt this point, rather than un-learn the basic Vim-fu I had picked up, I decided to see out the month with Vim.īattling through the many frustrations and difficulties with Vim was not easy. I was stuck in a horrid limbo land: unable to be fully effective in either editor. What do I actually mean by that? In Sublime Text, I now felt like I couldn’t easily select CSS rules, leap to lines down/up the page with relative numbers, skip along a line to a character with the f key, or make a selection to a specific point. Realising I’d been ‘Vimmed’Īfter starting Sublime Text and attempting to get back to work I quickly realised I had been ‘Vimmed’. What on earth was I doing wasting my time with this aged abomination? It was time to fire up Sublime Text and head home. No-one on my team uses Vim so when I need Tom’s help with my JS I have to fire up Sublime Text anyway.Īt this point of using Vim, I was also considerably slower in Vim than I was in Sublime Text (having been using Sublime Text solidly for a couple of years) maybe 60% of my normal speed.

There’s no minimap or CMD+R for quick declaration jumping in Vim (both these are fantastic in Sublime Text).

Sublime Text 3 Vintage mode gets some way towards it but it is a poor relation (just off the top of my head I know for example that Vip doesn’t work in Sublime).

Vim’s command mode selection capabilities are immense.

Sublime Text 3’s project switcher is fantastic.

Unlike Sublime, Vim has no vertical indent guides (there is a plugin but it only works on soft tabs and I’m a hard tab kind of guy).

Sublime lints ‘on the fly’ via the Sublime Linter plugin.

Vim has no ‘live’ linting, Syntastic (a Vim plugin) lints the file when the buffer (file for our purposes) is written/saved to disk.

In Vim, gg takes you to the top of a file, in Sublime CMD+Up does the same.

Here were a few comparisons I was considering:

Subsequently, I was weighing Vim up against Sublime Text. Starting the second week using Vim for my HTML/CSS/JS editing, I was struggling badly productivity was down and I was questioning the wisdom of my experiment. Would I recommend Vim for front-end coding?.This post is a conclusion to that experience, having now used Vim as my editor for an entire month.

In the last post I wrote about my first seven days attempting to use Vim as my text editor.