Abandoning VIM

This article was disappointing. It basically boils down to "I didn't like it", which the author is entitled to, but it doesn't give much to grab on to.

You know, I could never get into using vim. All the hotkeys and commands seem really counter-intuitive. Maybe because it wasn't my first, but i find Nano and Jed far more useable day to day for quick editing than VIM. And I love how there is so much work trying to get VIM to be a IDE. I have found that Intellij is an IDE that can pretty much handle any language, Has bindings for almost anything and works well. If not, I just use a different IDE.<p>In all honesty&#60; I havent found a language I that I use that I can't work on in VIsual Studio or Intellij.<p>I just could never use VIM or Emacs. Seemed like I was trying too hard to make it do something that it wasn't intended to do.<p>Then again, i do see the other side of VIM that could be awesome if I could ever learn to use it, and its powerful scripting and plugins. Maybe if we could take Nano and add the power of VIM without the horribly counter-intuitive usage of VIM.

You may say you're abandoning it, but you really can't. As smoyer said, it's just too beneficial when you ssh into a box and may not have access to the fancy editor that you have customized on your own setup. It and emacs are a well oiled tool in many people's toolboxes, and because of that, it makes it even more valuable.

In my opinion, this article left out the most important part: what editor or IDE Guz is switching to, or if he hasn't decided yet, what his options are.

I use both VIM and an IDE for the very reasons described in the article. You just can't ignore the productivity gains of a modern IDE when refactoring, etc. But VIM is great for remote work and when you're creating new files and code.<p>It's also possible to change the key bindings in Eclipse to emulate Vi.

Vim is a text editor (and a very good one), it isn't an IDE and it is a bad idea to try making it an IDE.<p>A better idea would be to use it INTO an IDE. I know some IDE let the user choose vim for editing text but I only use vim in a linux shell so I don't know if those integrations works very well.

Unless you are going to stick to a small subset of major corporate-sponsored languages and choose a different IDE for each of them, I don't see how you will get by with less tool-sharpening than vim. Vim is exceptionally useful across a wide swath of editing tasks with minimal configuration.

What features "missing" from vim caused you to switch? With nerd-tree and fuzzy filename searching, ctrl-p or Command-T (I'm on MacVim,) ack, VimClojure for the repl, minibufexplorer and the rest of the Janus bundle for autocomplete / syntax highlighting I have everything I need.

Linux and Vim are an IDE. The best I've ever come across.

This was a pretty useless article. Do we need to hear it every time some changes editor. You don't talk about reasons. What about alternatives?

If you choose Netbeans like I did, you will soon find yourself using jVi. Muscle memory is strong, you must admit that ;)

Author mistakes a text editor for an IDE and drops it when he understands his error. How interesting!

I'm gonna write an article about the fact that I'm changing my blue car for a red one, just because.

A quote: "I can almost here you guys laughing ..."<p>No, you can't. Not yet. s/here/hear/

If you want use IDE, try some vim plugin for IDE, like vrapper, ideavim and so on