I install vscode from scratch, install a few extensions I need, set 3 or 4 settings I use regularly, and bang in 5 minutes I have a customized, working environment catered for almost any language.

vi? Good luck with that.

And I say that as an experienced vim user who used to tinker a bit.

▲ godelski 6 days ago | parent [-]

  > I install vscode from scratch, install a few extensions I need, set 3 or 4 settings I use regularly, and bang in 5 minutes I have a customized, working environment catered for almost any language.

Weird, I'd say that's my experience with vim. I just carry around by dotfiles, which is not that extensive.

Hell, I will even feel comfortable in a vi terminal, though that's extremely rare to actually find. Usually vi is just remapped to vim

Edit:

The git folder with *all* my dotfiles (which includes all my notes) is just 3M, so I can take it anywhere. If I install all the plugins and if I install all the vim plugins I currently have (which some are old and I don't use) the total is ~100M. So...

▲ throwaway83977 6 days ago | parent [-]

3MB of configuration to make a text editor usable is a lot.

	▲	godelski 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		3MB? Good god, that'd be ridiculous! You misread. I'm using 74K for vim configs. (Mostly because I have a few files for organization's sake) I rounded up to 3M from 2.3M and 1.4M of that is .git lol. 156K is all my rc files, another 124K for anything that goes into ~/.confg, 212K for my notes, 128K for install scripts, 108K for templates, and 108K for scripts I'll repeat myself, with the same emphasis as above. Hopefully it's clearer this time. `>> The git folder with all my dotfiles (which includes all my notes) is just 3M` I was just saying it's pretty simple to carry everything around, implying that this is nothing in comparison to something like a plugin or even VScode itself. I mean I went to the VScode plugin page and a lot of these plugins are huge. All of the plugins I have combined (including unused) are 78M. The top two most installed VSC plugins are over 50M. Hell, the ssh plugin is 28M! I don't have a single plugin that big!