[Shorel]

This reads so much like that macho programmer who wrote everything in assembler from a few decades ago.

I will keep using Sublime Text. No need to suffer needlessly.

[Draiken]

> that macho programmer

Why do people keep making value judgements about people that built tools they trust like they should be ashamed or something like that?

Parent simply explained his process and why he uses vim like that and why he doesn't like VSCode. There's nothing there that says "macho" in any shape or form. I don't understand this need to put labels on others like this. Maybe it makes people feel better about their own choices? Helps with insecurity? I don't know.

Whatever it is, this doesn't add to the conversation at all.

[airlust]

I think it’s because of the statement “you can only copy what you understand”. I get the sentiment, but comes off as paternal rather than collaborative.

[Draiken]

Could be, but how is that macho in any way?

If anything, it's sound advice. Most of my early day colleagues copy/pasted everything from StackOverflow without understanding any of it, causing huge issues down the line.

They were the classic duct-tape programmers and that didn't help them at all to grow as programmers and even impacted their careers.

Labeling this as "macho" implies that properly understanding your tools is actively bad. Couldn't be further from the truth.

[troyvit]

This sounds like a refutation, but it's also in the same spirit as the parent. "No need to deal with insane complexities, I'll stick with my simple editor." Whether that's vim or Sublime, that answer works, and that's pretty cool.

[Shorel]

Except that ST is not "simple" by any measure.

It uses the standard bindings I learned with Windows decades ago, and builds on that.

Vim forces me to change it all to the vim-like model.

It's about having to learn a new set of key bindings just for that program alone.

[troyvit]

That makes sense, and I definitely wasn't trying to denigrate ST. Having not touched Windows since 2003, and having come from the vim world I had to learn a few aspects of Sublime to help my coworkers out, and just like you say, having to learn a new set of keybindings was a pain.

[IceDane]

This is pretty ironic, given that Sublime Text is basically dead in terms of community, number of users, etc and definitely isn't a full IDE.

[Shorel]

Been reading that for years.

The language server protocol works perfectly fine with ST4, and it is better than ever. Whatever our small community needs, it's there.

The fact it is not a "full IDE" is also one of the reasons I like it.

[recursive]

Am I crazy to think that I don't need a "community" to edit text?

[mehlmao]

Why does it need a community? I pay for the tool and it does what I want it to do.