Can VSCode editing be as fast as Emacs/Vim?

1 points by antholeole 3 years ago | 4 comments

I’d like to say I’m a vscode power user - I use a huge amount of shortcuts, keystrokes, etc. To the point where when peers watch me code I get comments on my proficiency with the IDE. Time and time again, though, I’ll stumble across YouTube videos or some form of media explaining that vsc skill ceiling is far lower than vim/eMacs.

I don’t have a problem with anything on vsc - in fact, I use it when I ssh into servers because I like the nice “at a glance” file UI, and I don’t have to cd & ls to see where and what everything is.

Unlearning all the vsc keystrokes, shortcuts, and tools is going to be a serious time commitment, but I’m a young guy and have a long career ahead of me. If vim is really that much faster, I’d be willing to take the performance hit for long term growth.

verdverm 3 years ago |

Yeah, it's so much easier to create / edit beyond shortcuts. That being said, it does take more effort to get things like intellisense working

You should start with vim, but graduate to something much closer to an IDE

https://github.com/verdverm/neoverm

antholeole 3 years ago | |

Do you have examples? Of things that are faster in vim?

verdverm 3 years ago | | |

Generally all movement and bulk edits.

One thing I learned recently is !! and how to use it to inject any program output at the current line. You can also use the current selection as input to that command. Write some code in vim, run !!bash or !! python and the output is replaced the code. Really helpful for doc writing and showing output

zaphar 3 years ago |

Just install the VIM bindings on VS Code. They are good enough (Don't flame me) and most of the speed you get from VIM is in the modal editing language. VS Code will give you other speed ups that are often difficult to set up in VIM so you get the best of both worlds.