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?

  • 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.