vim meets VisualStudio

There are two camps of neckbeards: Those who use emacs, and those who use vi or vim. I can’t tell which is better, and most of the arguments seem to be rhetoric. Until about three years ago, I perceived both as insufferable. I was however curious to learn either of them. The question was which one to pick. During my uncertainty, vim was praised more on hacker news. So I gave it a try. At first, it was awkward to work with, but after a while I managed to get along. People often tell how blazingly fast you are editing with vim. But for a long time, I was not nearly as efficient as with other editors. At the moment I’m reading the book “Practical vim” which has a ton of good tips. It seems the flood of shortcuts is never ending. In a way memorizing more commands and shortcuts is like having more keys. That kind of reminds me of an article, I once read. It compared working with a GUI vs on the console to listening radio vs playing piano. I can’t find the article right now, but it had similar reasoning as this one.

So I’m constantly improving my vim skills. In the meantime I’m about on par with how efficient I am at using the style of editors, that I have been using for two decades. To improve further, I thought I would need to practice more. So the natural progression was to use it on the job. For work we use VisualStudio, and unless I could easily compile and debug out of vim, switching back and forth would be counter effective. So I was thrilled to find out that there is a plugin to bring vim style editing to VisualStudio. I only just started using it, but it certainly looks promising.