Whenever I use vim without my config I wind up hitting Q and entering ex mode and wishing I had my config.
I've used vim on and off for at least 6 years and have never installed a plugin. Vim is great for quick edits, arranging text in temporary files (control x + control e in the terminal, quit without saving), moving chunks of code around, running macros. Its also great to use the keybindings in your favorite electron IDE.
I'm just not a "plugins" person. I've been trying to set up a python environment in emacs for a while and it hasn't been fun. Its an iterative process of installing a few plugins, getting something buggy and slow to use, and eventually getting fed up and restarting from a minimal config file.
Emacs has been amazing for magit alone, I just wish I was good enough at it to use it for more things.
Vim? Its my barebones text mover that has keybindings in countless apps. That's all it needs to be.
Have you tried using Doom Emacs? The process of installing everything you need for a particular language only involves uncommenting a line on your config and running "doom sync". It's really good.
I haven't tried Doom/Spacemacs yet. The same thing that keeps me from installing vim plugins probably keeps me from installing large "frameworks" for emacs. Doom does seem relatively lightweight and I'll give it a try at some point this weekend.
Whenever I use vim without my config I wind up hitting Q and entering ex mode and wishing I had my config.
I've used vim on and off for at least 6 years and have never installed a plugin. Vim is great for quick edits, arranging text in temporary files (control x + control e in the terminal, quit without saving), moving chunks of code around, running macros. Its also great to use the keybindings in your favorite electron IDE.
I'm just not a "plugins" person. I've been trying to set up a python environment in emacs for a while and it hasn't been fun. Its an iterative process of installing a few plugins, getting something buggy and slow to use, and eventually getting fed up and restarting from a minimal config file.
Emacs has been amazing for magit alone, I just wish I was good enough at it to use it for more things.
Vim? Its my barebones text mover that has keybindings in countless apps. That's all it needs to be.