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I've been using Vim for a couple of years now and I almost can't stand any text editor without VIM-like extension.

However, recently I took a liking to Visual Studio Code (with VIM bindings of course). Yes I know, it's terribly bloated and consumes RAM like nobody's business, but the Browser DOM arguably is the successor of terminal emulation in terms of ubiquitous interfaces, and VSC does use the additional power quite smartly. There are graphical hints and tweaks which are next to impossible to achieve in a terminal emulation.

I'll still use VIM all the time, especially remotely. But VSC does provide similar extensibility. I somehow wish there was something like VSC, based on web/electron, but more like a Texteditor, less like an IDE. And preferably not controlled by a huge corporation.




There are just so many bugs with Vim implementation in VSC. For example the two undo systems can lose sync and randomly delete half the document.


That hasn't happened to me, so far. But yes, it can be a bit buggy.




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