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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?

truenekomancer ,

Switch to emacs with evil-mode github.com/emacs-evil/evil. You get best of both: nice operating system with build in vim.

lemmur OP ,

I considered heresy and switching churches, but Lisp and rumours of multiple bugs kept me on the vim side

ricdeh ,
@ricdeh@lemmy.world avatar

The only reasonable choice!

fossphi ,

I always would recommend people to switch to emacs. It is truly a wonderfully transformative experience. But in your case, the question is why do you want to quit using (n)vim?

sloppy_diffuser ,

Need more info.

The answer will still and always be, just use nvim.

What features do these dedicated tools have that make you want to use something other than nvim?

lemmur OP ,

First thing is decent tables editor and the second is katex previewer.

sloppy_diffuser ,

Something like vim-table-mode work as an improvement? You got me there though, tables can be a real pain in a terminal.

For the second, I setup an on save hook or watch script to build a PDF and open it. Its been a minute, but I think I had to find a PDF viewer that would refresh if already open and keep the current position on subsequent opens.

Best of luck finding something that works for you!

fuzzy_feeling ,

github.com/iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim

amw3i7dwgoblinlabs ,
@amw3i7dwgoblinlabs@lemmy.world avatar

Emacs evil mode

UnityDevice ,

Some editors can embed neovim, for example: vscode-neovim. Not sure how well that works though as I never tried it.

nobleshift ,
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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0b867ec5-b658-47ba-bab9-1195e7517014.webp

therealjcdenton ,

Didn’t bother reading the whole post

Hit Shift ZZ to save and quit

gjoel ,

Open another terminal. Killall vim.

AnUnusualRelic ,
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

Use pkill, not killall.

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