Why I Use VSVim for Productivity

[@ProgrammingWithChris]

Thanks for watching! If you have any other VIM commands that you use every day, please let me know! I'd be interested in seeing what everyone else uses the most. 🕘Timestamps: 00:00 - Video Start 01:45 - How to get Vim on your code editor of choice 03:31 - Introduction to Vim Commands 05:23 - Other Common Movement Commands 08:05 - Insert Mode 10:00 - More Deletion Commands 11:59 - Macros

[@user-fs3qr5yg7e]

thanks a lot! this is exactly the vid i needed. i also think that you made a good selection of commands to get started!

[@bulelanibotman]

i remember learning about macros since i was a beginner in vim, i knew all the basics but after discovering macros! i was absolutely blown away & i've never looked back. it got to a point that if an ide doesn't support any vim emulation, i just bounce! i also thought visual studio didn't support vim & i switched to rider but i recently discovered it did, so i'm heading back

[@harag9]

I heard about vim, always through it was an IDE, this is the first time I've seen it. Not sure I would get on with it, 30+ years of muscle memory will get in the way, and I'm now slower in my old age. But hay, power to you and all the other vim users!

[@ProgrammingWithChris]

Vim is also a text editor program (if you’ve ever edited a file on a Unix server, you may have used the vi command) but yeah, I’m not about to give up Visual Studio, 😂. So the extension is my compromise. And I really have no idea if it’s made me faster, but I like to think so since I had to go through the effort! Lol

[@TheAzovStar]

Thank you for this great introduction. Very useful.

[@Paul-Jean]

Is there any way to change the Vim shortcut keys? I'd like to change the navigation and other things that annoy me.

[@sologabriel.l]

What do you use to show the key presses on screen?

[@jhummelgaard9310]

Great! What about outcommenting a code block ? I'm also looking for a duplicate line command, since VSVim overrides the default ctrl d.

[@bryanstark324]

Do you know if we can use a vimconfig file?

[@Undrios]

is there a way to edit the vim motions in Visual Studio Community?

[@abhijeetvibhandik9527]

Try entering visual mode and then select a word or line and then if words are mix or in lower case do "shift + U" for uppercase or if u want everything in lower case try "u"

[@SoulLostMDA]

Hi, whats your theme for Visual Studio called?

[@ProgrammingWithChris]

So, I use Dracula theme pretty much everywhere, but looking back on this video, it appears that the theme colors here are messed up, and it’s really not appearing correctly! But in general, yeah, Dracula.

[@tuantuhoang2586]

When I've started producing I personally have downloaded most of the plugins from there, never had problems with virus, malwares and

[@mrhoxell]

I love this take. The problem with the idea of using Vim for everything simply doesn't work for me. For instance when I tinker with C++ code and I have to do the profiling and benchmarks then sure, I could install some plugins and get over it. The point is that I have a certain ecosystem that helps me get productive. My combo is resharper c++ and built-in VS tools. That helps me develop things easier and cleaner. So it's nice to see the idea where the idea of Vim is used as an additional tool to make the development more productive rather than moving it all and tweaking the toolset for a decent result. Like the sale-point of Vim is the productivity around faster coding but not necessarily faster development as many stuff depends on plugins you work with.

[@JonathonMcClung]

Anybody else on windows having issues with getting VSVim to recognize your .vsvimrc? I have mine squarely under my %USERPROFILE% and it's not running any of the set commands.

[@jongeduard]

VsVim is really great. I am really thankful to Jared Parsons (really great guy that has more very interesting stuff as well) and others for making it. I have just started using it at work, because while being an engineer in C# I do a lot more, on Linux as well, and I became aware of and learned using the power of Vim too. It clearly goes much further than some people replying on this video realize. It's soo much more than a just a tool which is difficult to exit. Unless you mean that once to fell in love with it, you will never stop using it. Biggest challenge is integrating things with the shortcuts that I am used to in VS, with which this extension does a really great job too however. I haven't yet started with the extension in VSCode yet, but I will.

[@jackof4ll]

ctrl+[ is considered escape command you can use that instead.

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[@zhuk462]

I can’t say for Mac, but on Windows, VsVim works very badly, especially in combination with ReSharper. Despite, I use vsvim on Windows and… crying.

[@greenboykrish4346]

which is the the purple vs code because i code in blue vs code

[@ProgrammingWithChris]

The VSCode theme I use is called "dracula", if you search that in the Extensions panel in VSCode you should find it in there.

[@lesfiddler]

The program with the purple icon is Visual Studio. This is an integrated development environment, not a code editor

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[@lulairenoroub3869]

I love the idea of vim. But it is all wrong. Hjkl as the arrow keys? Get the hell out of here. Not interested. Wasd. In fact, I want the whole thing left handed

[@michrisoft]

So make it that way my dude. It's entirely configurable. Or maybe you'd prefer emacs keybinds. I think they're more in line with that.

[@Carlos-pg9ip]

This is a joke right?

[@jongeduard]

Why do you think that?