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I've asked this before but I'll ask it again. Usually when people say they don't like vim plugins for other editors, they say that the plugin doesn't do everything they need. What features of vim are people missing in the plugins?

I've been using vim and vim bindings for like 3 years now. I've occasionally ran in to something that the plugin doesn't handle well but I can work around it with a custom binding. This has only happened a handful of times. I'm genuinely curious about what features of vim I've been missing out on!

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IME, these people just haven't put as much effort into it as they've put into their custom VIM/emacs configs. There might also be a sunk cost fallacy aspect to it as well

But there's nothing in VIM that I'm not able to do in VSCode. Especially when you realize you can very very easily bind VSCode commands to keys in VIM. It starts to feel like a superpower.

you can do that in the neovim vscode extension too though and everything else is faster in spades.

from my neovim config:

nnoremap <silent> zc <Cmd>call VSCodeNotify('editor.fold')<CR> nnoremap <silent> zo <Cmd>call VSCodeNotify('editor.unfold')<CR>

For me, it's more about the plugins that are missing, like Telescope. Being able to filter a buffer or project to a search term and go one by one through them seeing the context is huge. (If you know Emacs, Ivy can do similar)

But there are some things that aren't quite right. It may be down to config, but it's frustrating when you use a key binding you expect to work that doesn't work the way it does in just vim. I can't name any specifics because I only use vscode for debugging sometimes.

> What features of vim are people missing in the plugins?

The feature of not having your editor made by an evil greedy corporation. Oh, and also startup time and memory usage.

it’s literally neovim in normal mode but when in insert mode it’s vscode basically. there’s weird edge cases when you try to replicate all of vim’s features without it being actual vim. it’s faster too. it can use almost any neovim plugin too as it’s, again, actually neovim doing the hard work.

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