{"id":1256,"date":"2014-01-10T00:53:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T22:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ulrichard.ch\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2014-01-10T00:53:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T22:53:47","slug":"vim-meets-visualstudio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/?p=1256","title":{"rendered":"vim meets VisualStudio"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are two camps of neckbeards:<\/a> Those who use emacs<\/a>, and those who use vi or vim<\/a>. 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.<\/a> 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<\/a>” 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>. I only just started using it, but it certainly looks promising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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