Vintharas
barbarianmeetscoding.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2011
Vintharas writes about front-end web development, developer productivity, Vim and VS Code, with a fantasy theme, plus personal game projects.
What HN saysHN commenters recommend his book and guides on learning Vim inside VS Code, though one notes the "Wizards Use Vim" guide looks unfinished.
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vintharas · 2019-02-22
https://www.barbarianmeetscoding.com/
I write mostly about web dev, front-end, ux, dev productivity and whatever I happen to be tinkering with at the moment. All of it with a pinch of fantasy on top ^_^
ZeroGravitas · 2022-12-13
If you're using vscode there's a book about learning vim inside it that's worth a look:
https://www.barbarianmeetscoding.com/boost-your-coding-fu-with-vscode-…
Core pitch:
> You may be wondering... Ok. If Vim is so good then... Why not just use Vim instead of Vim inside Visual Studio Code?
> Great question! The truth is that setting Vim to work with a feature set similar to modern text editors is not a trivial task. Features likes code completion, code navigation, in-editor error messages, etc, although supported by Vim don't work perfectly out of the box.
> Visual Studio Code and Vim together offer a very sweet spot that balance the ease of setup and super rich development user experience of Visual Studio Code with lots of the amazing features present in Vim.
> The translation is not yet perfect though. And if you're an experienced Vim user you may find some features missing. But all in all, VSCodeVim offers a very pleasant Vim experience outside of Vim.
lkuty · 2025-04-24
I like https://www.barbarianmeetscoding.com/wizards-use-vim/introduction/ but it looks like it is not complete, unless I am mistaken
lsllc · 2024-02-18
Neovim with Lazyvim is pretty good out of the box. In the old days, both Emacs and (Neo)vim although highly extensible, well, it was hard to configure and set up for the things you wanted to do.
Now, we have Spacemacs, Doom Emacs and Neovim with Lazy, Packer etc., so I really can have a 1st class "IDE" without needing to learn LISP or Vimscript (or Lua). So you do need a little bit of that to be able to edit the package.el or init.lua, but it's pretty much uncomment or cut & paste.
If you're looking for a (Neo)vi(m) tutorial, try this:
https://www.barbarianmeetscoding.com/boost-your-coding-fu-with-vscode-…