I've taken the plunge and decided to make #Vim my full-time #editor, for #development as well as writing. I was always happy with #Atom but I've had enough of the painful performance I get from running it alongside other necessary apps. Let me know your Vim plugin recommendations for development with mostly #CSS, Less and #JavaScript.
@syntax I once thought as you did. The problem with vim (and me) is that I spent so much time configuring and hunting for the perfect setup that I didn't actually do anything with it most of the time.
When I realized that I switched to IDEs that have good functionality out of the box and offer vim support. That works very well for me and I feel much more productive that way.
@syntax But why stop at i3? There are so many others to try and configure. Bspwm, dwm, herbstluftwm, xmonad, all of them arguably better 😛
@TheDoctor
But then it goes back to the previous point about avoiding spending too long on setup. Since discovering i3 and becoming familiar with it and making it my daily driver I don't feel I'm missing out on anything. I will check out your suggestions though. Hadn't heard of them before.
@syntax Welcome to the rabbit hole that is window managers, editors, configs and a never ending stream of neat stuff...
@TheDoctor That's a good point, and I have been known to get sucked into that trap of obsessing over configs, but luckily I tend to stop once I'm genuinely happy with things. It was similar with my i3wm config.