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I can handle basic editing in vim and I have given real tries to use it as my main text editor but I just cannot find a way to get as comfortable in vim as I can in VS Code.

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I don't really "get" using vim as an editor, but I love using vim bindings in vs-code. I've been using vim bindings for maybe a year now? Didn't really keep track of when I started. I definitely consider myself a novice, and maybe am using vim to 10% of it's potential, but the little bit I do use is nice.

On the other hand, I've never considered typing speed or editing speed the bottleneck in programming, it's usually debugging, solving problems, or reading files with 10k+ LOC and multi-hundred line files figuring out what they are doing.

I hated all the configuration stuff to get a usable vim ide. VS Code and its plugins Just Work™ for ide stuff with almost no setup so it was a lot easier for me to just use vs code with vim bindings than to get a good vim setup. Plus I can fall back on visual editing a lot easier this way if I forget some esoteric vim functionality and have to click through a menu.

Speaking as a vim user who can't get comfortable in VSCode - use VSCode then, it's a great editor!

Pick a tool and learn it well. Doesn’t matter which one, really, so long as you’re productive with it.

Ironically I'm more comfortable in VS once I found the VI plugin ;)

Stick with VS code

I have a vim config I have used for years, but I have just gone with it now and embraced VS code, it's a brilliant tool.

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