I've a couple of questions for hardcore #Vim users.

[justine@snac.smithies.me.uk]

I've a couple of questions for hardcore #Vim users. Since the AI revelation will you be sticking with Vim ? If not are you watching #Evi and considering it ?

https://codeberg.org/NerdNextDoor/evi

[fedops@fosstodon.org]

@justine on the fence. vim is standard fare on all the servers we manage as it comes with Rocky so replacing that would mean either neovim or pulling in a 3rd party repo for something else. I honestly don't care enough to do that. I would also only do that if any fork demonstrates it's properly maintained in the long run. Boutique forks are harmful.

On my private machines this might be the push I need to convert my setup to neovim. Maybe.

[justine@snac.smithies.me.uk]

Yeah I'm sticking with Vim and watching Evi to see how long it lasts and how well it comes along. I've used Neovim before but I have to say that I preferred the later.

[crow@irlqt.net]

@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk switched to Helix half a year ago; has all my usual plugins baked in and is a lot snappier

i also like the change in selection, where movement pseudo selects and selection comes before action so you can preview the affected lines before entering a command

e.g. d5w (delete 5 words)
you can do as 5wd to ensure you actually selected what you imagined

trivial example for for more complex selects it's nice

hoping they don't sloppify

[rridley@fosstodon.org]

@justine I've used neovim on my personal machines. I doubt i'll ever not use vim on servers since it's always there

i'm always very skeptical in philosophical forks like this as they rarely ever maintain momentum

[turre@mementomori.social]

@justine @fedops Likewise - too early to jump anywhere, but keeping an eye on the situation.