I agree and I know what you're saying, but I'm pretty curious: how are people using AI with vim? I've seen some scripts for ollama but what are most people doing?

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troyvit 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't use it this way yet, but aider has a watch mode that would be fun with vim:

https://aider.chat/docs/usage/watch.html

I imagine with vim, from the document you're editing, you'd go:

:ter

to get a terminal. Fire up aider with --watch-files in the terminal. Hop back up to the file and start telling it what to do. Hit L when it's done to see the changes.

That's just a guess but after writing it out I kinda want to try it.

When I use aider it's via its chat interface and then I load the file with vim in another terminal tab to follow along but I think --watch-files with vim would be fun.

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flexagoon 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

At least for Neovim, there are many official or community-made AI autocomplete plugins, and a bunch of chat interfaces as well

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era86 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

tmux + vim + Claude Code

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bicx 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This. With so much of my work being done with Claude Code via terminal, I’ve used vim and tmux more than I have in the 20 years since I was first introduced.

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linhns 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How many people don’t know tmux in the industry is really beyond me.

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tommy_axle 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

With all the buzz about orchestrating in the age of CLI agents there doesn't seem to be much talk about vim + tmux with send-keys (a blessing). You can run as many windows and panes doing so many different things across multiple projects.

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jimmaswell 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What's the elevator pitch if I already know Screen and I can just open multiple windows of the terminal emulator?

	▲	mystifyingpoi 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		No pitch - just use screen, most people use tmux in exactly the same way - open a few splits and switch between them with keyboard shortcuts.
	▲	hibbelig 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I switched from screen to tmux due to rumor about the screen code base. Maybe not a good reason. But I don’t regret it, tmux works well. Just an honest opinion of someone who didn’t have skin in the game. Not sure if it helps.

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Keyframe 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

same, although I'm using zellij instead of tmux. Copilot works well in vim too.

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sorentwo 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Nearly this, but using ghostty instead of tmux. You don’t get the remote connection aspect of tmux, but for splitting/zooming/preserving windows it is fantastic. The best part is you can configure natural shortcuts rather than using a leader for everything.

	▲	dotancohen 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		As a tmux user, sell me on ghostty. I hate the leader key, especially in VIM.

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Carrok 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The copilot plugin works well

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guerrilla 7 hours ago | parent [-]

That's good to know. I've never actually tried Copilot. I was going to try this week.

	▲	metrix 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Totally worth it. I tied it to openrouter.ai so that I could use 'all the AI's' (TM) Totally worth it

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qsort 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

AI makes advanced IDE features less relevant (or, more precisely, much easier to ignore or work without.)

I still have PyCharm, especially for working with data which I do a lot it helps quite a bit, but by default I'm back to a very vanilla Vim setup. Others have mentioned tmux which is great and I'd use anyway especially over ssh, but even just terminal tabs for instances of agents are fine frankly.

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drawnwren 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Avante.nvim is quite active