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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

Renewed +3 years of Sublime Text and Merge.

I use 80% of time vim but if I really need GUI editor (e.g., for presenting in a meeting) I use Sublime Text (with a Vim emulation plugin). It has one single advantage over VSCode, Zed and many other modern GUI editor: OpenGL rasterizer AND a hand-crafted software rasterizer optimized for actually decent performance with zero glitches. It’s a life-saver, when the GPU driver does not work ;-)

#sublimetext #vim

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mpdesouza@floss.social

Marcos Paulo de Souza

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@jarkko what happened to the guy that was using Helix? :)

Since I started using it, after I saw your toot about it, I really never went back to vim :)

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @mpdesouza@floss.social
@mpdesouza i used it for a while on terminal just to get grip of it but i ended up returning back on using vim ;-) could be i try it some day again... it was not bad!
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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @jarkko
@mpdesouza I now remember what started to hit me: it started to be confusing that universal vim bindings work elsewhere (even in many sites), and it started to distract too much and was somehow just too confusing (i.e. to change the mindset)...
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mpdesouza@floss.social

Marcos Paulo de Souza

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@jarkko makes sense, changing the muscle memory is annoying, I understand why you got something else :)

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @mpdesouza@floss.social
@mpdesouza I've been using Sublime Text on side of Vim for number of years (maybe something like eight'ish) for meetings and similar situations, and one obstacle was the lack of helix bindings. This lack of ubiquity among other software than helix itself was the main bottleneck really. Years will show if Helix becomes similar language of interaction (there's extension for VSCode already at least).
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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@mpdesouza It is still definitely objective strength of Vim over how good or bad text editor it is: its command language has a track record of translating to a number of applications (text editors, file managers and even web sites). Helix as an ecosystem needs grow a bit ;-) Anyhow, I wish best for the project. It is actually innovative Rust based application project in my books ...
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mpdesouza@floss.social

Marcos Paulo de Souza

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@jarkko I'm not that used to the keybindings on different software than the text editor, so maybe that's why I feel so comfortable with it. But your arguments are understandable. As you said, I also hope that helix stays around for some more years, because vim will be :)

The thing about helix for me is how I don't need any special plugins or anything like that, since it used to give me some headaches regarding key bidings for different plugins.

We should use what fits us better :)

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