[rajangdavis]

If you think $80 dollars is too much for a tool that you can expect to use for 5+ years without issues (I'm at 5 years with Sublime currently), I don't know what to tell you. If you work a trade, you should expect to invest in high quality tools (a laptop, maybe a second monitor, etc.).

Granted, if I knew how to as productive as I am with Sublime Text with Vim or Emacs, I would switch over in a heart beat.

[frosted-flakes]

He didn't say it was too much, only that it was more than other comparable editors. If all else is equal, why wouldn't you take the cheaper option?

[rajangdavis]

Vim and Emacs may work for GP's workflow, but I can't say the same for me (at this time). In that context, I would say that cheaper doesn't always mean better (I prefer to be productive than bill for learning new tools unless that is part of the project).

I tried working with Vim exclusively when I started my job ~2 years ago, and my terminal would hang quite often that I had to abandon it (I use ConEmu which is free, but hangs quite often).

I also work on a Windows machine and do not want to use the windows command line, I prefer git-bash/mingw32.

[nickjj]

I'm currently using Windows with WSL + wsltty + tmux + terminal vim with no issues.

Things are really fast and stable. I often have 10 Vim instances open across half a dozen tmux sessions. Each one takes up about 8mb of RAM with ~40 plugins doing everything I could ever ask for in a code editor. The only time they get closed is when Windows decides to reboot but then I can automatically restore the tmux sessions with 1 hot key.

I switched to Vim last month after I found VSCode to be unusable for editing a 1mb a markdown file (it used over 50% of my i5 3.2ghz quadcore just idling with the file open). I wrote about the experience at https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/vim-is-saving-me-hours-of-wor....

Haven't looked back since.

[rajangdavis]

I have an i3 so I might not have as awesome experience as you may have... had to optimize for longer battery life because I was traveling a fair bit at the time of purchase.

I'm looking to change jobs, so hopefully when I end up somewhere new, I can get a new laptop and try to start with vim. After reading @frosted-flakes comment, I was messing around a bit with vim yesterday, but went back to Sublime because of familiarity with commands for navigating through files.

I'll get to vim one day, just happy with where I am at now.

Was reading through your article and noticed your comment about managing windows in Windows. Did you try using the windows key + left (or any of the other directions)?

Here's a video of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxerpQ8WK8Y

[nickjj]

I'm on an i5 3.2ghz from around 5 years ago but most slowdown issues with WSL will be I/O bound, not CPU (unless you happen to be compiling code a lot).

Yeah I use the window key + arrow key shortcuts a lot but it's not the same as a dedicated window manager. Thanks though.