daily #2

I’ve heard many times that VS code is the best, but have not tried one yet since I felt comfortable with my current environment. However, when I began to use it, it changed a lot of things.

Before

I really did like the Vim style editing. I almost banned using arrow keys, Ctrl+F should be used for navigation, and Ctrl+V should be mapped to visual blocks.

So I used Vim in a remote server for coding C++/Python. However, I’ve also had to spend some time using markdown editor called Typora to write some documents. It worked quite well for me, since I could get live view of latex equations. I also used Sublime Text for local files because it’s hard to use terminal on Windows..

So, I used 3 applications, each of which had its own rules. There was no problem at all, but certainly not an ideal thing. Also, there were some points that Vim is missing: IDE-level smart linting.

After

I could replace all the programs above into one VS code environment. It supported linting quite well, with Pylint. Vim plugin in VS Code worked way better than in Sublime Text. I was able to get preview of my markdown by another plugin. I was also able to mimic the behavior of Typora for pasting images.

The reason I haven’t tried the recent text editors like Atom was simply its heaviness. However, I feel VS code is much lighter than Atom. It’s true there are delays sometimes, it’s bearable for me.