First of all. This is not another “how do I exit vim?” shitpost.

I’ve been using (neo)vim for about two years and I started to notice, that I,m basically unable to use non-vim editors. I do not code a lot, but I write a lot of markown. I’d like to use dedicated tools for this, but their vim emulators are so bad. So I’m now stuck with my customized neovim, devoid of any hope of abandoning this strange addiction.

Any help or advice?

    • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
      10·
      4 months ago

      No joke, Emacs has the ability to render in line markdown, essentially the current line is just text, while the rest of the doc is rendered as markdown titles, links, lists, etc. It’s my favourite way of editing markdown but I’ve never found another editor that does markdown like that. Everything else has text and rendered markdown side by side as separate panes, which I personally hate.

      Edit: I stand corrected. Neovim has it too: https://github.com/MeanderingProgrammer/render-markdown.nvim

  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
    9·
    4 months ago

    Switch to GUI editors with Word-like navigation. You will struggle but eventually your vim habits will fade away and then you will be able to use any editor with slightly various levels of performance.

  • oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    Make a plugin to a non-vim editor that properly emulates the vim experience, with the non-vim GUI.

    Or, if that doesn’t work well enough, fork them.

    Failing that, you could just accept your fate. I love my neovim install.

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
    3·
    4 months ago

    Why do you want stop using Vim in the first place? That would be a good information to have, to give help. What dedicated tools do you mean? What do they offer that you miss in Vim? If you just hate Vim and want stop using it no matter what, the only solution is to uninstall it, to not fall into those habits of using it everywhere. Over time you should get used to those other editors and tools.

  • astro_ray@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    I don’t know understand why you need markdown, but if you are so used to vim motions why not switch to latex instead. You wouldn’t have to worry about katex support as well. This is an advice solely based on your need for katex support without understanding your needs.

  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
    2·
    4 months ago

    The trick is do the opposite, namely bring vim everywhere, e.g using Tridactyl you can bring some behaviors to the browser and, in this very textarea from lemmy, if I press Ctrl+i I get gvim, when I exit it, the content is back in the textarea and I can reply. Vim everywhere.

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
      1·
      4 months ago

      Surfingkeys browser extension has a similar functionality to edit text area. Ctrl+i will open a in browser popup with an emulated vim editor and on saving and closing it with :wq the text area is updated with the new content.

  • folekaule@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 months ago

    I don’t know if this will work for you, and I’m not sure if you’re only looking for TUI editors, but Obsidian has vi key bindings and a lot of plugins.

    Disclaimer: I have not tried the vi key bindings in Obsidian.

    Another one I use is vscode. It has a ton of markdown plugins and vi key bindings. It also has a nice preview window.

    • NaN@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      Obsidian should not be suggested for general use without the disclaimer that you have to pay if you use it for any work in most cases (unless you work for a very small place or a non-profit). I think their license is probably one of the most unintentionally violated around, kind of can’t believe they’re on flathub.

      Commercial use means using Obsidian for revenue-generating or work-related activities within a for‑profit organization that has two or more employees. Government departments and agencies are considered commercial use, unless registered as a non-profit organization.