Is there a .vimrc that already maps all the standard notepad++ keybindings in one go ?

You may find someone who has one, but I just did the ones I found myself missing as I encountered them.

I tried someone’s all-in-one .vimrc, but it broke too many community recipes while rebinding a bunch of shortcuts that weren’t in my muscle memory anyway.

I kept adjusting my .vimrc as my muscle memory transitioned. So having less to fiddle also made it easier for me to keep my .vimrc tuned to my muscle memory.

For example, I was using / instead of Ctrl+F because I liked it better within a month or two.

what’s good about neovim?

• NeoVim supports plugins written in modern languages without a Vim script shim. Vim script is utterly awful, and the sooner we can all pretend it never happened, the better the world will be.
• NeoVim can be configured and extended with lua a language that many people actually like to use.
• NeoVim is built client/server style, like VSCodium, so it can do the same remote/local mix and match tricks. Notably, VSCodium works nicely as a front end for editing files with NeoVim.
• NeoVim is somehow actually faster. vim was no slouch, but a full rewrite seems to have added some…ahem…vim.

I just drag my vi terminals to another workspace and launch a new editor.

I see what you did there. Lol.

Yeah. And VsCodium with NeoVim is fantastic.

But if ctrl+f doesn’t let me type a search term then I’m going to scream

It’s been awhile since I’ve bothered to remap a key in Vim, but adding this to .vimrc should do it for you:

nnoremap <C-f> /

I started with a bunch of these to let me keep using existing muscle memory while training new.

Yeah. After that everything can be done with !sh.

(Edit: This is a joke. There’s a lot of reasons not to do this.)

I think I get what you are intending to imply by the word “intuitively”; it’s that it eventually becomes as reflexive and fluid as touch-typing itself.

Exactly like that!

It’s also another source of the many “I can’t exit Vim” jokes, because it is now genuinely disorienting for me to try to edit text without Vim key bindings.

Gosh you make it sound almost like you play Vim like an instrument more than use it…!

That’s a great analogy. It does very much feel that way.

Honestly that sounds cool ^_

It is pretty cool.

Wether it’s really worth the learning curve is probably unique to each person that tries it. But for folks who need to edit a lot of text a lot of the time, it’s pretty great.

It’s intuitive if your previous editor was ed(1) and you’re using an ADM-3A-like keyboard.

Exactly! Ha!

Nice.

I’ve been using Vim daily for about 20 years, it saves me 30 minutes at a time regularly.

I’m approaching break-even on the learning curve!

I’m kidding…mostly.

Doesn’t matter we will tell you either way.

• Instead of simply shortcuts, vim uses “chords”. Every new shortcut I learn can be combined intuitively* with all the other shortcuts I know.
• Because of this there’s no faster way to edit files than Vim in the hands of an experienced user.
• this let’s me spend almost no time editing code, freeing up the rest of my time for swearing at piss poor documentation.

* I use “intuitively” here in a way that not merely stretches, but outright abuses the definition of the word.

That’s a sell cue, for any shareholders reading along.

Oh. This is seriously cool. Thank you.

Yeah. That’s the difference people don’t seem to understand.

AI is perfect for stuff that’s just made up bullshit anyway.

But what if someone else’s government creates the Torment Nexus before ours can?!

The arbitrary standard for the censorship in Fediverse is extremely bad.

“The pirates code… Be more like… guidelines.”

9. Don’t truncate passwords for verification.

It needed to be said. Because some password system architects have been just that stupid.

Edit: Fear of other’s stupidity is the mind killer. I will face my fear. My fear will wash over me, and when it has passed, only I will remain. Or I’ll be dead in a car accident caused by an AI driver.

Putting it on eBay for full price is a dick move.

Agreed. That’s just fraud.

Sounds like you’re ready to join the cult club of Debian.

It’s stable, performant, and adaptable. Tons of window manager options. And I’ve found that anything I like from *buntu distros I can backport into Debian by finding a .deb file.

I’m also in the “I don’t care” camp.

A lot of us just want a piece of nostalgia that the big companies choose not to produce.

If it looks close enough that it inspires my happy nostalgia, and it plays fine in my console, that’s what I’m happy to pay for.

If the license holders are still selling the game, I’m happy to buy from them. If not, I’m happy to buy from someone else producing reasonable facsimilies (of abandonware games).

I get how someone could be upset if they thought they were getting the real thing.

I haven’t, personally, felt misled by makers of abandonware facimilies.

I can’t wait to try a translation of the best rhythm timing cooperative levels I have ever experienced into a format where my friend Tim can dither about what meeple to move next because he left to grab more chips while the instructions were being read.

This isn’t a complaint about Rayman getting a board game, or about board games in general. This is about Tim.