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    How to quit VIM? (szmer.info)
    submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
     

    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?

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    [–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

    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?

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

    The only reasonable choice!

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

    I switched to (Doom)-Emacs from a ~7yr old homegrown Vim config last week and honestly the configuration is less bad than it seems. If you're mainly writing markdown you'll probably get 99% of the way there by just enabling the dedicated module

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

    As someone who is currently learning emacs, I gotta say, this comment has the energy of someone offering heroin to someone struggling to moderate their cannabis usage (given OP indicated that custom config if a thing they're finding burdensome in a way)