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by skydhash 189 days ago
> This workability indeed might require temporally replicating old habits while I learn the new ones, which lazyvim does

I'm not judging your for it, but to me that sounds like learning the violin by plucking the strings like a guitar. You're increasing the learning period by following old habits which may even be harmful.

I think it's better to just use the new editor sparingly, learning what you need, then switch fully once you're comfortable. A filetree is never necessary unless you're actually exploring and a file manager would be better for that. Vim has global search with `grep` and the terminal is available through `ctrl-z` and the `:terminal` command.

I've seen people touting Neovim setup that are just making things complex and fragile for no reason.
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torben-friis 189 days ago
>that sounds like learning the violin by plucking the strings like a guitar.

I'd compare it more to learning photography without going for manual aperture and developing analog film straight away. You'll have a better experience if you learn stuff like framing with an automated camera that frees you to shoot a hundred pictures daily and focus on a certain skill.

I am increasing the learning period, that much is true. But if I can make use of my daily 8 hours of work as practice, that makes up for the delay, because I can get much more practice.

Maybe a student or a hobbyist can afford to spend 3 minutes nailing the regex while they learn to search and replace, I just can't be fighting that kind of friction regularly at work.

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skydhash 189 days ago
IMO, it’s still the wwrong approach. Vim and Emacs are just editors. Very much like Notepad. You don’t have to learn the extra stuff.

Once you are comfortable with basic notepad-like usage, you can then learn more advanced features. But emacs and vim are different from VSCode because those advanced things are supposed to be tweaked to personal preferences, not be handed down from high. When you start with something like Lazyvim, you’re missing on everything that makes vim, vim. You just have a walmart version of VSCode.

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