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  • To use any editor with vim bindings takes time and effort. The learning curve is generally quite steep, so if you decide to go down that path, then to switch to a different flavour of vim isn’t too much effort, assuming you have already put the effort in to learn vi/vim/nvim. If you have yet to do that, I strongly suggest that you go dive into using vim for a month or three before you start worrying about which plugin set you prefer. The magic powers are really in the modes, macros and keybindings. For example, VSCode has a decent enough set of keybindings that it’s usable, but I still prefer console editing and on the fly macro creation.

    Regarding Lunarvim, for me, it was the first vim ide I found which hit all my requirements, and wasn’t intellij, vs code, etc. But I had been using vanilla vim for nearly 30 years by then. The default plugins which come with lvim are pretty good, so I only add or modify with care. I really can’t afford to lose my ide in a work environment.

    Speaking of which, lvim works in most terminal environments, but may require font tweaking on windows, wsl, etc. But then it’s always harder doing stuff in those environments…

    I can’t speak for emacs, since I last tried it 20 years ago (although I didn’t like the complex key bindings at the time). I hear that once you commit to one of the two, it’s difficult to transition to the other, but ymmv 😁





  • No they were not setting standards. They were in fact breaking them. Their own standards were not disclosed, forcing competitors to actually have to reverse engineer them in order to try to have a chance at compatibility. The whole reason for the lack of uniformity was Microsoft fucking with the standards!

    Secondly, the competitors did not have a significant market share. Thirdly, it’s funny that you mention in the context of a developer, given that they all complain mightily, even to this day, about having to support the festering pile of IE versions still around. Still, this won’t stop you telling, so you go do your thing elsewhere please.


  • No. I was just looking for an example of when Microsoft created standards for IE that other browsers could adopt, given that they were tied into IIS and undocumented in order to give them an uncompetitive advantage. Let’s also think about how they deliberately downgraded performance, or broke functionality on non Microsoft browsers, again for anti competitive behaviour.

    They were called browser wars for a reason, and Microsoft is very well documented indeed regarding their fuckerry. But you go ahead trolling.