Mastodawn

I've still not given up on #Vi as my editor instead of #Vim and to be perfectly honest, I'm not really missing the fancy Gruvbox theme and Vim's auto-completion. It's making me learn new tricks and stops me relying on the help of plugins. Good for the old grey stuff I'd say! I even changed the 88x31 button on my websites footer from Vim to Vi. #RunBSD #OpenBSD

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Sijmen 🧑‍💻3d ago

@justine hear hear!

Sadly a plain text editor is usually not suitable for traditionally IDE-heavy languages like Java, but for everything else, vi all the way.

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PedroMJ

@sjmulder @justine Having well-structured code, one can use vi for a project of any size---I prefer vim, but that's other story. It is generally more productive. Things like auto-completion only add stress ---one has to check that the proposal is fine, but it is faster to write than to read+check. For novices, IDEs help a lot. For seniors, they are
just put in the middle.