I program maybe 5% of the time, so the stuff I do to make it IDE-like often isn't worth maintaining for that 5% time, so I often end up with partially working plugins or whatnot. Partly because of the 100s of machines issue, partly because of managing plugins and interactions between them. A year or so ago I threw away all my custom vimrc and went with (nearly) bone stock LunarVim, and have really enjoyed getting off the treadmill of maintaining a custom vim setup. Sysadm here as well, been using vi since the '80s.

I choose the latter because i spend SO much time staring at my editor and trying to convince it to do things that are almost always better with automated assistance from it. You _can_ accept pre-made defaults like those provided by VSCode OR you can gradually refine your editor to be a perfectly crafted tool for your particular and very individual way of thinking. The less configurable an editor is the less it will be able to support the way your brain likes to work. The fact is that _your_ brain is different from everyone else's. VERY rarely, you'll want to tweak it in a way that there isn't a plugin / config for and you'll find communities of very helpful people who'll respond with 'what about this solution.' With ALL editors you eventually encounter 'ugh, this is frustrating' or 'i wish i didn't have to do that' and then you have 30+ years of plugins and configs you can draw on to modify it to match your liking without any coding. that's not how it works unless that's what your brain wants.

I 100% agree with your hyperbolic '200 keybinds to make a view component' But that's. BUT, what they both offer better than anything else, is the ability to gradually modify them to match what your brain needs. The thing about vim and emacs is that both of them, out of the box, suck.

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