At the hands of an experienced user, editing text with Vim seems like magic: The truth is that Vim provides a different way of interacting with text from anything I’ve ever seen, a way that gives you a completely different level of control and fluency when editing code. Why should you care about learning about an ancient editor in this day and age? Does it really make such a big difference to my VSCode setup? Why Vim? Isn’t Visual Studio Code Enough? Today you can find Vim-like modes in almost any editor and IDE that you can imagine. But the impact of Vim doesn’t stop with Vim, Vim’s ideas are so very remarkable that they’ve trascended the Vim editor itself and propagated into other editors. Vi’s latest and most celebrated incarnation is Vim ( Vi IMproved and formerly Vi IMitation) which works both with text and graphical interfaces, comes with a plethora of improvements over vi and is supported on every platform known to humankind. That is, it has a mode for inserting text, another for editing text, a different one for selecting text, and so on. It was designed to work on contraptions called terminals with the very uncommon yet inspired characteristic of functioning in a modal fashion. Vi is an ancient text editor, old even before the first age of the world. I'll guide you through all the concepts and techniques you need to know to be effective with VSCode and Vim. This article doesn't assume any prior Vim knowledge so don't worry if you aren't familiar with Vim. Moving Even Faster with the Sneak and EasyMotion Plugins.Editing at The Speed of Thought With Vim Operators and Motions.Moving Blazingly Fast with Core Vim Motions.What is Vim? And Why Use Vim in VSCode?.In the next few minutes you’ll boost your Visual Studio editing skills by bringing in lots of incredibly useful tools from the Vim editor right inside the comfort of your favorite editor: Visual Studio Code. The combination of both couldn’t be anything less that amazingly superbsome (yep, I just did that).
Vim offers a complete different level of text editing proficiency, speed and accuracy from anything else out there. It’s modal nature and text editing features make it unique amongst other editors. It comes with great defaults and is super easy to use and to get started with. It offers an unparalleled user experience with great support for many languages and development ecosystems. And if you want to learn Vim from within VSCode, take a look at this new extension: Learn Vim.
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