Does this have literally any value for someone who isn't a programmer?
No.Even among programmers, it only has value to boomers.
>>108094100the only usable editor on mobile devices if paired with good software keyboardalso has a lot of pluginsdo with this information what you want
>>108094201Literally this. You can try Emacs but keyboards with arrow keys suck on phones. HJKL has returned for the same reason it originally came about. Not enough keys.
>>108094100emacs is infinitely more useful for programmers and non-programmers alike
>>108094100idk about non-programmers but I've been using it for the past 15 years of my career. never had a reason to change. I even use vim to make ascii architecture diagrams
>>108094100its very efficient and helpful when you do any kind of work in the terminal since you can have multiple windows and tabs open in a tty. i use gvim as main editor mainly because every other alternative sucks ass. vim motions are very nice too when you develop the muscle memory for it
>>108094100very useful for sysadmins
Sysadmins who reasonably expect certain tools to be installed by default. Quick and easy editing of config files.
We use it a lot at google but desu all the devexp ppl setup the tooling to make it straight forward. I think it's the most used ide at google still but maybe with more ai integ vs code is popular. Our mono repo is so massive that it's only recently we've had the tooling for decent ai tooling.
>>108094100I acutally use it primarily for note taking, becuase it has such a small UI footprintI like that I can navigate to the file of interest in the terminal, and then open neovim
>>108094100If you write a lot, it can be useful as it makes writing easier. Writing markdown documents with one sentence per line makes editing very simple.
>>108094142>it only has value to boomersyep, it's good for old peeps heads. it's like eating with chopsticks - keeps dementia at bay :)
>>108094201>editor on mobile deviceswtf
>>108094100non programmer here, I use it for accounting because it has a ledger plugin and I'm used to the keybinds from when my autistic friend taught me it.
>>108095144>he doesnt know
>>108094142I am a zoomerstarted using nvim 3 years agocouldn't be happier
Its just for linux servers with no gui
>>108095826It's very nice that all 3 of you are happy. Disregard what everyone else says and continue to enjoy yourselves.
>>108094980>Writing markdown documents with one sentence per line makes editing very simple.This. Though Vim has (somewhat awkward) commands for navigating sentences too, you don't really need them since markdown lets you put each sentence on a separate line without turning it into paragraphs.
>>108094958Do you use any plugin for note taking?
>>1080941000 value outside sysadmin/development. But it's 10x better than jeetcode or whatever other bloat people are using now
>>108094100It's a text editor. You use it if you need to edit text files. Why does this confuse the zoomers?
>>108094142This is true. Vi/m and Emacs had their place, but I'd be lying if I weren't more productive in Vscode. Vi is still nice for one-shot remote edits, but there's no point for someone starting out today to learn it. Just as I never learned obsolete tech like COBOL when I started out. t. Young boomer
>>108094100>isn't a programmerdo you ssh/edit config files without DE/WMs? yes - it's faster/better than nanono - it's useless
>>108094100it's literally the easiest and fastest way to open a file and make edits or just take some notes
>>108094100If you truly know Vim then it's the best text editor you could have asked for but again it takes few months to actually learn and people usually don't see value in learning text editing for months... so that's about it.
>>108094142zoomer here, every time I use VSCode or any IDE the sluggishness and needless features of it take away my thought process and thus results in worse code quality. I'm convinced only jeets use it over vim/emacs.
>>108096589Vim was created because it was an editor running on time sharing mainframes, and you could squeeze in more operations by batching them together in bursts. Whatever speedup that gave, still will not be as fast as vscode running on your local machine. Your thoughts drift away because there's no weight to them in the first place.
>>108094100very good for termux and over ssh usage.tried nvim too but demands too much configuration, when vim even has nginx config highlighting out of the box.
>>108096656You know you can use vim locally, right anon?
>>108094100>graphic designer>know a little bit of neovim>good part of job consist of looking for files >neovim, basic py and bash cuts my work in half>tell none>profit
i use vim exclusively i hate IDE's. vscode specifically . jeetware desu
