Mastering VIM Motions in VSCode (Mouseless development)

I love VIM. Using VIM is absolutely critical to my performance. I recently made a video where I am LEAVING NEOVIM to go to VSCode and I had to share my set up. I'm sorry @ThePrimeagen @teej_dv

Whether you're a VIM enthusiast or new to this text editor, this step-by-step guide will take you from the basics to advanced techniques, helping you become a VIM motion pro in no time. With the VIM extension for VSCode, you can harness the full potential of VIM's motion commands without leaving your favorite IDE.

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[MelkeyDev]

I hope you all enjoy this video!
Let me know what you all think and what video you want to see next.
BTW THANK YOU FOR 3, 000 SUBSCRIBERS!!!

[bfkgod]

Hell yeah. I recently switched as well from NeoVim to VSCode and have been stuck using the bare defaults. This is exactly what I needed. Thanks.

[LPrulzcrossover]

Thank you for the bindings, I'm just learning vim motions and it already feels great. Those terminal toggle keys are great!

[luisloyola]

thanks for the keybinding, now I can get more out of vim without having headaches with settings. Tremendous work, it's simple and conquer, straight to the point to be productive.

[kipcrossing]

Later this year I need to update my dev setup. I'll be coming back to this video. Thanks!

[jansustar]

To get even better visuals, you can set the toolbar to toggle with alt (which is a bit buggy but works well enough) and install a material theme and run everything fullscreen.

[tyfischer]

Overall pretty good! If you aren’t already you can configure your file explorer to use j and k to move up and down as well as / to search a file.

[hlibtumakov]

I'm a backend engineer and I've been using neovim for the last 2 years on a daily basis, and it worked like a charm! Considering that I have my workflow built with tmux sessions/windows it was really convenient and definitely more than enough. But as soon as I started playing with some modern JS frontend technologies I had to make this decision as well... If you want to write client-side (not vanilla) JS you can not avoid using VSCode.

Thanks for this guide! It helped me a lot with my vim-like VScode config :)

[caasidev]

Thanks @Melkey. I jumped back to VSCode couple of weeks before you did, and this is exactly what I was looking for!! Thanks a lot man!

[namanvyas]

"vim.useSystemClipboard": true, This uses system clipboard so when you yank something from web a simple p works instead if Ctrl+shift+p

[VIYH-mtdz]

the nerdTREE extension makes file navigation and creation super easy, ctrl + n to open the file explorer, vim bindings to navigate and m + a to make a file, m + f to make a directory

[SyntaxLexx]

Nice! Coming from Webstorm, I can confidently say it's actually impossible avoiding touching the mouse regularly when it comes to VsCode.

Nevertheless, there's some notable keybindings you can add to speed up productivity:
1. Adding 'shift shift' to quickly do what 'ctrl+P' does (view recently opened files - just like IntelliJ)
2. Adding 'alt alt' to quickly launch the command palette (ctrl+P then '>')
3. Adding 'ctrl ctrl' to toggle the 'sidebar'

[sayo]

really enjoyed this video! the new keybindings made it possible to finally adopt vim motions in vscode!

[lmnts]

For people who have the time, use both and mess around with them both. In general I use a lot of vscode but if I have to do a lot of terminal/remote work I absolutely love to use nvim.

[tenthlegionstudios]

I still use VSCode at work - but use nvim in all my personal projects. Will definately be using a lot of these tricks on my vanilla vscode extension. Much Appreciated!

[AliFahim]

This was awesome. I tried neovim but it was not for me yet at least. I wanted to make vs code more like vim but I got a bit overwhelmed. thanks for this banger video

[vanhoheneim]

Thanks man your video got me into VIM for VScode !

[danielvega]

It would be great to also implement the built-in vs code ctrl + p ctrl + t commands to rapidly explore through files or other vscode settings.

[Winsen]

Question : say you have file explorer, terminal and a bunch of files open how do you navigate between all of them ?

[thecarpenter_son]

Hey melkey the thumbnail is really good well done :)