Yeah, I’d call Emac and Vim both IDE’s. They’re definitely not “just” text editors.
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sping@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months agoIf call that an IDE, but also one that makes using a non-IDE EDITOR SUPERVISOR.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 7 months ago
uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Vim can have some IDE-like qualities, if you bolt enough plugins in to it, but by default it affords buttinx text in a file and manipulating it.
I woudn’t classify it as an ide though.
Helmic@hexbear.net 7 months ago
Neovim can can certainly be an IDE, but its complexity comes from having a lot of features to rapidly edit text. d5d deletes 5 lines, vwwy selects two words and yanks them, gg returns to the beginning of the file, etc. It’ll maybe do some code highlighting out of the box but its featureset is about never needing to touch a mouse or leave home row.
It’s about like notepad++ on Windows in that it’s very good for quick edits of a file or otherwise manipulating plaintext but it isn’t good out of the box for actual writing meant to be read by other human beings.
vidarh@lemmy.stad.social 7 months ago
As the old (bad) joke goes: Emacs is a great operating system. Shame it lacks a good editor.
sping@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
The biggest irony is it’s often told by vim fanboys, who apparently don’t realize a very comprehensive emulator of vim it is one of the editors Emacs offers. But mostly it seems to be told by people who don’t even know what Emacs is, they just know they’re meant to disapprove of it.
vidarh@lemmy.stad.social 7 months ago
Frankly, I’ve seen it more often from Emacs users themselves, including while I used it myself for ~20+ years.