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VSCode/IDEs and Vim need not be mutually exclusive. I tend to rely on vim emulation within my vscode, chrome and in other applications. Usually, all I need are the basic vim modalities with the nicer amenities provided by modern editors.

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The well known “Vim mode paradox”: if you like the Vim mode provided by another editor, it means you don’t know Vim well enough to justify using Vim nor Vim mode. Vim modes don’t approach even 10% of the Vim features you need to reach the bare minimum of efficient editing.

> Vim modes don’t approach even 10% of the Vim features you need to reach the bare minimum of efficient editing.

What's the 90% that's not available in VSCode with the Vim extension?

Trying it out again now, this isn't Vim, it's an entirely different product. It doesn't have command editing mode q: nor q/. It doesn't use Vim's regexes and doesn't support \v (which is probably good, Vim's regexes are very bad, but it's still not Vim). There is limited support for windowing, I mean not really support at all, because this is a better windowing system that Vim (:h CTRL-W_J). Although I am surprised `ctrl-w +` works. Of course no support for Vim plugins like surround.vim. Vim out of the box is not a usable editor. H and L seem to be busted and scroll the screen.

Still trying it, no `:norm`, no `:g`, multiple cursors in VSCode are so much more powerful than this, and already do 90% of what you want to do in Vim in the first place.

What is the 90% that is missing in Evil?

That's fine, my focus is on mastering software engineering (rather than text editing) :p

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