![]() ![]() The other problem is, in my experience, far more gets written about text editors than IDEs: probably because blog posts about text editors are likely to reach a wider audience as they can appeal to a cross section of writers and front/back-end developers. Whilst I advocate Vim, I generally never get involved in discussions about which is the “best” text editor. If you don’t actively do this, your development environment won’t get any improvements. It’s your responsibility to keep everything up to date. vimrc file to make and occasionally one plugin might conflict with another. Also, unlike Vim itself, the keyboard shortcuts are likely to be more complex and lacking in consistency. Some plugins won’t be quite what you need you may struggle to get others to work at all. You have to ask around, trawl blogs and resort to trial and error. When you install Vim nobody gives you a recommended list of addons and there’s little official online curation. (I’ve had people ask how to get basic features like colour syntax highlighting.)īut it’s not idea – particularly the plugin situation. I wasn’t aware there was a better way and I knew many people didn’t have many of these things. Vim is highly extendable with plugins with extensions to browse your files, quickly write HTML, insert snippets, surround text with quotes or tags, test your PHP for errors, test your javascript fo errors, insert and delete comments and on a meta level, more easily manage them.įor a long time this suited me.
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