[zimpenfish]

> If you use Neovim, can you share why you chose it over VS Code

Just about 30 years of muscle memory for ed, then vi, eventually vim, and recently neovim. Also because one flavour or another is pretty much guaranteed to be available on any server I log into - as a contractor, it's handy to know there's a (to me) usable editor wherever I end up.

> I've spent months tweaking Neovim/Emacs configs in the past

I had a brief spell of Emacs madness at uni but then recovered and I've had pretty much the same vimrc since picking up vim modulo adding things like go-vim and surround in the last few years.

[Grimburger]

> pretty much guaranteed to be available on any server I log into

So is nano, the original comment hits the mark, why exactly can't you use a proper code editor via ssh? There's very little reason these days. Haven't used a terminal editor for a decade despite doing tons of work that many would instinctively reach for the same job.

VSCode and pretty much every other equivalent has modal editing if that's the sticking point here.

[zimpenfish]

> nano [pretty much guaranteed to be available on any server]

Having just checked 5 of the servers I'm currently logged into, nano is missing on 3 of them. Although one of those 3 is cygwin which is weird in the first place.

> why exactly can't you use a proper code editor via ssh?

Well, vim is a proper code editor. If you mean VSCode, it's not available everywhere; been at plenty of places where installing/using non-approved software on work machines was forbidden. Also, and this is a minor point, kinda, but using (n)vi(m) remotely rather than VSCode gives me one/many windows fewer to manage on my local end - everything currently lives in iTerm2 and I only have one app to wrangle. Using VSCode would give me another one - unless it can do terminal emulation as well these days?

[ar_lan]

What exactly is a “proper code editor”, and why does Neovim not fit the bill there?