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>Installing plugins is one good example of this, where even if you use a Vim plugin (or this, it seems), you still need to resolve to using the mouse/Tabbing to actually install the plugin itself.

Sounds like a minor annoyance at best... Where vim-mode is important to me is editing and navigating code, not when installing plugins...

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It's not just installing plugins. It's the VCS view, the symbol list, the terminal, the file browser, the search pane, the debugger pane, any pane added by any extension, etc.

> the terminal

Ctrl+`

As I said, it's one example. Anything outside the code window suffers from the same problem, not just installing plugins...

I didn’t expect to disagree with you at first because I also struggle with vim -Code plug-ins, but it really never occurred to me that it would cover the entire functionality of Vim outside the editor and file navigation.

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