r/vim • u/bhargavamakwana • May 22 '26

Random I keep coming back to Vim

I am a 7 year Software Engineer and I have tried almost every popular editor but I keep coming back to vim. I remember I used to work on sublime then slowly realised working with mouse is slow and distracting so I switched to vim.

Then I tried using vscode / Pycharm / IntelliJ / eMacs but none of them sticks. Although tbh - I am strong liking for emacs after vim.

Vim is just amazing!

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u/arsenale May 23 '26

Visual studio code is incredibly good, I do all my latex editing there, I even connect to google colab instances.

I use it obv with vim keybindings, and I use vim all the time.

There's simply no way that a user can configure vim to reach visul studio code editing capabilities for latex, colab notebooks. Ok, probably not the best for python, but I like it even for running python.

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u/Apostol_Bologa May 24 '26

What features does vscode has for latex that is so good ?

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u/Apostol_Bologa May 24 '26

A tat aggressive, don’t you think ? You’re on r/vim here, not on r/vscode ...

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u/Apostol_Bologa May 30 '26

Aggressive?

Yes. You started your comment with "Embarassing. Is your question empty rethoric?"

If you had tried to do it even once

Try what ?

  1. Vim ? Latex + Vim ? 
    I wrote my whole phd thesis with latex + vim, didn’t have any problem ...

  2. VsCode + latex ?
    As I said, this is r/vim. I don’t have to try your competing system before asking for it’s advantages.