How is visual studio code's vim emulation this bad? vi/vim is 50 next year, with its behavior codified in the POSIX standard. What takes me 1 line in a vimrc requires a mountain of JSON and learning separate programming language to do this plugin. Who ever maintains this pile of crap should be embarrassed. I just wanted to pay microsoft to use copilot on my own projects.

Good luck trying to replicate 50 years of legacy spaghetti code

@retoor That was me! I'm just using the out-of-the-box setup because I'm a vim motions noob. Power users might find this arrangement frustrating as it certainly seems like the it's still mostly VSCode with some vim parts as opposed to a full conversion from VSCode to vim.

But if you're interested in vim so much, why not just use vim? I only like the vim motions, but hate the rest of vim. Plugin management is absolute crap and frankly I don't like working in TUIs. That's why VSCode + vim plugin works so well for me.

FWIW OP, I had the opposite experience. Just installing a language server on vim took me hours and had to literally write full-page lua scripts to get the plugin manager (lazy.vim) and the language server manager (I forget already - I think it started with an M) and then finally install the actual language server (typescript) only to realize I needed ANOTHER plugin to actually USE the language server's inputs.... at which point i said "fuck it" and installed the vim motions in VSCode with one single FUCKING click and felt like I returned home from a long and scary journey.

@retoor your shitty spam bots are going wild

@retoor You've ruined this person's post and have no right to do so. You aren't allowed to spam this site just because bad actors do.

Fix this immediately.

@retoor Thanks boo 😘 it just really got under my skin that this poor guy got his first post ruined. I know your bot has good intentions but you aren't exempt from the rules, and this is a good example why.

I sort by algo, not new, and I barely saw any spam even before the bot was running.

I would be happy with a compromise that the bot is triggered manually rather than automatically. It's still against the rules, but what are we to do when the creators of the app refuse to do anything except pay for the electric bills?

It would also be splendid if you could remove the comments from this post as they've completely ruined the conversation topic.

@retoor Here's the API. I respect your programming skill and know you can do it quickly!

@retoor Very cool!