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stevebmark on Dec 7, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi? (2007)

Vim is a text editor, not an IDE, and has limited refactoring capabilities and a poor plugin ecosystem. For fast code editing and refactoring, Vim will only slow you down.

Lio on Dec 7, 2021 [–]

Vim/NeoVim’s plugin support includes both native plugins in VimL or Lua and plugins via LSP.

An LSP client is built into NeoVim itself and support of VSCode extensions not covered by LSP is also available via plugin.

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