John Crepezzi's Vim

John Crepezzi shares his Vim history and configuration.
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[@marlogreene432]

"I'm kind of a vim purist." Loads 22 plug-ins ... :P

[@fernandojsantos09]

In the beginning I saw a lot of videos where the person says "I do 90% with no plugin" and when you check the vimrc, there are a lot of plugins loaded. Today I like to think that idea is basically transform vim into any IDE that you'd like to use. At least this conforts me... kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[@mariusandersons]

6:10 this is me every time i am not in vim 😂😂🤣

[@blopbop5405]

Thanks for explaining those popular plugins. I'm new and it's time consuming to track down the functionality of all those plugins and what they are for.

[@ex0stasis72]

1:30 New to both Vim and Emacs here. In my experience, it seems rare that someone moves from Emacs to Vim from what I've read and watched online. I've tried to get into Emacs. I really like its potential functionality, but I found that once I've got over Vim's initial steeper learning curve, it just makes more sense to me.

[@yadtahir9443]

Try VIM for one month, then switch to Emacs with Evil-mode. This is how I did it; it worked perfectly for me.

[@kappadistributive]

I’ve used Emacs for 8 years on a daily basis before switching to VIM - it does happen.

[@sufiyanadhikari8716]

Exactly why I am trying to move to sapcemacs. Best of both worlds

[@CaptainWumbo]

Does this man know super tab is just mapping ctrlp to tab? It's just a little bizarre he starts off saying he prefers to be pure so he doesn't add mappings. Most plugins are just making existing vim functionality accessible via a less painful mapping.

[@ko95]

starts 3:15

[@gjermundification]

8:20 when you start using vim in a good way, you will no longer use arrow keys or hjkl valid exception at 09:40. You will use /, *, w, b, and so on 10:28 surround FTW!

[@betlamed]

Is there a difference between windows and splits?

[@darrenandveronica]

No. Every split is it’s own window

[@reverseila4363]

I feel bad having too much plugin...

[@maxpolaris99]

MacBook hmmm?

[@laszlokecskemeti7622]

Tpope

[@flarone]

Apple jest werks tm

[@patrickprucha5522]

Emacs and Vim are not the same thing!!! Emacs is much more. Vim is a text editor. Emacs has a Text Editor, and much more. Comparing apples with oranges