Post #217614
2026-02-02 09:26 UTC
STOP USING VIM
YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for anything Notepad couldn’t do
Wanted fancy colored words anyway for a laugh? We have a tool for that, it’s called Word
"Yes please Ctrl+A to increment the number under cursor and Ctrl+X to decrement it” - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
Look at what Vim users have been demanding your respect for all this time, amidst all the IDEs built for them
"Hello, I would like to exit"
They have played us for absolute fools
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@iurii@mastodon.world 2026-02-02 09:27
I used to work on a remotely hosted codebase, the only viable way to work was console editors. Almost all my colleagues used Vim, I thought it was the stupidest thing on Earth. To prove it, I learned Vim and made a few plugins to convincingly argue how stupid it is. I’ve been using Vim ever since. Not as much as an IDE, but like an ultimate file transformer and a quick editor. You take a raw, unstructured log dump and come back with a CSV file in 5 minutes, plus some regex scars.