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I also have been switching over to VSCode for coding. The vim plugin is pretty decent.

I still keep vim around for huge files though. I work daily with NASTRAN input and output files, routinely multiple 100 mb, sometimes multiple-gb. I edited a 10gb file earlier this week and vim didn't choke up too much. Best editor I've found so far for huge files.

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Which VIM plugin are you using? I've tried them all, including the recommended one simply called 'vim', and they are all missing the most basic of features. Go-to-definition (Ctrl-]) was one missing for me just a few hours ago when I last tried it!

I have vscodevim plugin, currently 0.5.2 and it's decent, it's been making progress, yet still it has little things that definitely detract from the experience, like motion keystrokes do not take the key auto-repeat. Actually it works moving by block ({}) and line (+-) but not with character (i,j,k,l) or word motions (wW,bB,eE) or next/previous occurrence of search (nN). Annoying. At least now they've fixed the issue where I had to re-enter a search term when switching buffers. So there's progress, and it will eventually be just as good.

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