vim-be-good
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vim-be-good
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Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
Sure! The first thing I did was follow this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7i4amO_zaE
This is ThePrimeagen's 0 to LSP, Neovim RC from Scratch. In this video he performs a clean installation of Neovim and goes step by step adding the things he considers essential. This was very important for me to acquaint myself with how things work, how to install plugins, how to define custom key maps. I remember the first times I tried using Vim, I couldn't figure out how to get Nerdtree to work. This video made me realize I just lacked the knowledge of how Vim config works.
This video was such a good start because It provided me with the tools to continue my exploration of Vim autonomously. In a week I was already able to install new plugins and tweak them using Lua config files the way I specifically wanted. It's such a cool experience!
Keep in mind that both the author of this video and I use Neovim, which is a fork of Vim. As a text editor they both function essentially the same. The difference lies on the config files and in broader UI capabilities by Neovim. While Vim uses Vimscript, Neovim prefers Lua, although Neovim is fully backwards compatible, so you can choose to use Vimscript for your configuration if you want as well. This also means that Vim plugins just work with Neovim!
The docs are also a huge source of knowledge for me. In the beginning I resorted to :help key-codes a lot when defining key mappings.
To learn the Vim motions, which is the most challenging part of using Vim, I suggest you find a cheatsheet online and refer to it all the time. One very cool plugin that will help you get comfortable with Vim motions is ThePrimeagen's VimBeGod: https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/vim-be-good. It's a set of game-like exercises to practice the motions. This is also pretty cool and helped a lot: https://vimsnake.com/. It's a classic snake game where instead of using arrow keys, you use HJKL. And speaking of arrow keys, one thing I did very early on was disabling them (or, in reality, remapping them to noop) in normal mode so I was forced to move around the text using Vim Motions.
At first you will get frustrated because your brain will need some time to rewire in a way to absorb all the new abstractions Vim presents. It's a whole new logic of editing text. The most important thing is to stick to it and you will be surprised with how fast you end up picking things up. Of course, don't expect to be crazy fast in a few weeks. But right now, after a little over a month, I no longer feel that discomfort using Vim anymore. I suppose I'd still be faster on VS Code, but I really want to master Vim, so I'm sticking with it and I feel a constant improvement.
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Ask HN: How do I code offline for a week?
If you're not familiar with Vim, I'd encourage you to download a few Vim cheatsheets, the VimBeGood extension[1] and practice navigating code in Vim.
[1] https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/vim-be-good
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Practicing VIM
For Neovim, then this Hardtime plugin will help you change the habit, and this vim-be-good from Primeagen helps learn vim motion. TJ DeVries is also a good source to learn.
- Resources for mastering vim motions
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Vim for The VS Code User: Part 1 - Initial Setup
A game for learning vim, in vim: https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/vim-be-good
- recommendation on vimgolf challenges
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Please help a noob.
I'm trying to NeoVim (and vi) in general having never used it. I decided to start with VimBeGood but I can't get it to launch a game. I've gotten the plugin installed but when I run :VimBeGood it just shows the screen saying "to play a game delete that line." I deleted words and noob but after that I'm lost. Nothing happens. What did I do wrong?
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Question regarding vertical movement
I recommend vim-be-good for practicing this
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Whats the next step?
There are plugins like https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/vim-be-good that can help with practice.
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Atom has been archived
I found https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/vim-be-good to be kind of a nice way to build some muscle memory for vim.
TextMate
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CudaText: Cross-platform, open source code editor written in Object Pascal
I mostly work on MacOS these days and previously my general purpose text editor wax Textmate: https://github.com/textmate/textmate
Last official release was 2021, so I looked for something more regularely updated, and found CudaText. Definitely very Sublime-ish, and I like it so far.
- Which apps do you install first on any new Mac?
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BBEdit is 30 years old
Textmate 2.0 got open-sourced https://github.com/textmate/textmate but it looks pretty much abandoned/finished.
- Atom has been archived
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Alternative to Atom (that’s not VS Code)?
If you want something like TextMate maybe use TextMate? https://macromates.com
- VSCode 自訂語法標色
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Best Mac OS version for web development on a MBP 2012
Use a native editor. VS Code is IMHO awful. Someone mentioned Sublime which is fast and has some nice features, but its non-native UI is IMHO ugly and clumsy. You might like it for similarity to VS Code, I guess. If you want something much more "Mac", though: https://macromates.com
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CotEditor – Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS
I know no one talks about it anymore but TextMate 2 is still actively being developed and I find it excellent.
https://macromates.com/
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10 Best Code Editors in 2022: The Guide to the Top Options
TextMate is a well-known code editor for developers who code on a Mac system.
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Developer Diaries: How We Built a Better Browser-Based IDE with Monaco
See, VSCode itself utilizes grammar files called “tmLanguage” files to tokenize your code. This tokenizer is borrowed from TextMate.
What are some alternatives?
10-minute-vim-exercises - The exercise files from 10 Minute Vim, for convenience of readers
CotEditor - Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS
which-key.nvim - 💥 Create key bindings that stick. WhichKey is a lua plugin for Neovim 0.5 that displays a popup with possible keybindings of the command you started typing.
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code
vim-sneak - The missing motion for Vim :athletic_shoe:
Atom - :atom: The hackable text editor
vim-surround - surround.vim: Delete/change/add parentheses/quotes/XML-tags/much more with ease
sublime_text - Issue tracker for Sublime Text
nvim-tree.lua - A file explorer tree for neovim written in lua
Geany - A fast and lightweight IDE
tree-sitter - An incremental parsing system for programming tools
Brackets - An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.