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How to quit VIM?

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?

fin ,

Get a thinkpad or a keyboard with a trackpoint. Your life gets a little bit better.

oscardejarjayes ,
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Make a plugin to a non-vim editor that properly emulates the vim experience, with the non-vim GUI.

Or, if that doesn’t work well enough, fork them.

Failing that, you could just accept your fate. I love my neovim install.

propter_hog ,
@propter_hog@hexbear.net avatar

Learn emacs

theshatterstone54 ,

No joke, Emacs has the ability to render in line markdown, essentially the current line is just text, while the rest of the doc is rendered as markdown titles, links, lists, etc. It’s my favourite way of editing markdown but I’ve never found another editor that does markdown like that. Everything else has text and rendered markdown side by side as separate panes, which I personally hate.

Edit: I stand corrected. Neovim has it too: github.com/…/render-markdown.nvim

lord_ryvan ,

Sounds like what Obsidian and Logseq do? Awesome!

Bitrot ,
@Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Marktext is another. Pretty lightweight and more permissive license than Obsidian.

rien333 ,

No joke, Emacs has the ability to render in line markdown, essentially the current line is just text, while the rest of the doc is rendered as markdown titles, links, lists, etc.

This sounds amazing. I’ve been using markdown-mode for ages now though, and I’ve never come across this feature.

How do you enable this?

Telorand ,

Agreed. Start here.

gomp ,

LOL you made my day :) “emacs is a part time job”

SuperFola ,
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You could consider markdown extensions that helps you write and visualize!

Like this one: github.com/…/render-markdown.nvim

crony ,
@crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz avatar

Why would you wanna quit if vim works for you?

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

brisk ,

What plugins can you recommend?

I think the only markdown plugin I’ve used was for table alignment.

crony ,
@crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz avatar

Mkdnflow is the one that I used to use and it does so many things amazingly for writting markdown easier

github.com/jakewvincent/mkdnflow.nvim

lemmur OP ,

I’ll check it out. Right now my wiki workflow consists of homemade scripts, which have some sharp corners.

lemmur OP ,

Yes, it is amazing, but some things ( like md tables or writing katex eqations) are handled rough. And I still sometimes need to use something other than vim and then life gets hard.

crony ,
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That’s why for tables and katex equations I used plugins to help me with then to not be rough.

As for other stuff than vim, minimize the nees for them if it really gets hard.

GolfNovemberUniform ,
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

As for other stuff than vim, minimize the nees for them if it really gets hard.

Your vim obsession is looking kinda unhealthy at this point.

crony ,
@crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz avatar

I just prefer the vim bindings and motions, not an obsession. I use diff tools almost daily and can manage in them with no issues, but whenever I can use vim binding I will because they just feel better to me.

GolfNovemberUniform ,
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

Idk, mister/miss. Your comment was pretty concerning.

crony ,
@crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz avatar

I was talking for the op in that part tho, it can be seen from the context

GolfNovemberUniform ,
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

Then I don’t think it’s a good advice. It’s literally the opposite of what the OP asked.

tuhriel ,

Also, some tools have plugins to provide vim controls for them.

I know at least and use these:

There are probably more…

GolfNovemberUniform ,
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

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.

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