First of all. This is not another “how do I exit vim?” shitpost.

I’ve been using (neo)vim for about two years and I started to notice, that I,m basically unable to use non-vim editors. I do not code a lot, but I write a lot of markown. I’d like to use dedicated tools for this, but their vim emulators are so bad. So I’m now stuck with my customized neovim, devoid of any hope of abandoning this strange addiction.

Any help or advice?

  • CronyAkatsuki
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    334 months ago

    Why would you wanna quit if vim works for you?

    Plus vim can be an amazing markdown editor with a few dedicated plugins.

  • @[email protected]
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    4 months ago

    Switch to GUI editors with Word-like navigation. You will struggle but eventually your vim habits will fade away and then you will be able to use any editor with slightly various levels of performance.

  • @[email protected]
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    94 months ago

    Build a small EMP device. Figure out how to trigger it from terminal. Delete the key bindings for vim. Map them to the trigger you have for the EMP.

    … good luck…?

  • @[email protected]
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    84 months ago

    The trick is do the opposite, namely bring vim everywhere, e.g using Tridactyl you can bring some behaviors to the browser and, in this very textarea from lemmy, if I press Ctrl+i I get gvim, when I exit it, the content is back in the textarea and I can reply. Vim everywhere.

  • @UNY0N
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    54 months ago

    How about obsidian.md? It’s based on markdown, so edit mode has lots of keybindings, and there are all sorts of javascript plugins to add functionality.

      • @UNY0N
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        Haha, I wouldn’t expect anything less. But I don’t need to install the plugin…well…maybe I’ll just try it out for a few…danmit.

  • @[email protected]
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    44 months ago

    Do you just need to write markdown? Plenty of text editors have a vim mode. Not sure if there’s any lightweight ones that do the markdown preview alongside a vim mode; I know IntelliJ-based IDEs have a vim mode and can preview markdown, but that’s not exactly a lightweight solution, and only the community edition is open source.

    But also what exactly is it you’re looking for that Vim can’t do? I use Vim for writing pretty much everything. I use Vim for markdown and it works fine. Markdown is already pretty readable as a text file so I don’t feel the need for a previewer or anything like a rich text editor (but also there are plenty of markdown editors out there if you just want to edit markdown in a RTE).

  • @just_another_person
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    44 months ago

    Trying using Nano for absolutely EVERYTHING for a few weeks. That’ll help.

    • @LordCrom
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      34 months ago

      Nano works just fine for me

      • @just_another_person
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        24 months ago

        I have no issues with it. It’s Kryptonite to the nonsensical world of VI(m) users though.

  • Kerb
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    i just use vim plugins in the other editors i use.

    kate has a vim mode,
    vs code has a vim plugin.
    intellij has a vim plugin.
    obsidian has a vim mode.
    a lot of editors have vim modes.

    if you have a current non vim markdown editor,
    try looking for a vim mode.

    if you dont, obsidian is all about markdown,
    and vs code has a markdown preview plugin.