Programming in Vim?

You say stuck, I say probabilistic localization via sensor fusion (and Mexican food).

Thanks! I’ll look at just creating a keybinding to run the build.xml. I’m fine with the fight, I used to use emacs, then I forgot everything and switched to vim.

Becoming enlightened tends to make you forget your past transgressions.

No offense but are you going to seriously program in VIM? It seems… kind of limited, slow to switch between files, no context help.

I know some people like it because it doesn’t offer much “help” and it makes you stay true to your code in terms of know exactly what everything does, but still, there are tons of files for a robot…

I’ve had to use it for a few college classes where we code in C or ARM Assembly. It works well for assembly, but for big projects, I wouldn’t be so sure.

I’d be interested in knowing how it works out… Keep us updated!

I write the overwhelming majority of my code in Atom, this includes robot code. I’ve found that not having a million menus and things popping up on the screen helps me focus on the problem. But I also tend to work best late at night, so maybe it’s just an isolation thing.

Anywho, tool preferences are weird.

Yes. I mean, my computer can barely run crysis so I don’t think it’s got much hope of running emacs to program anything.

I agree, I think big editors like Visual Studio, Eclipse, ect are super clunky and get in the way of the code. I like Visual Studio Code, which is what I use for all the web apps and websites. Big editors only help when you have specialized things (for example, .NET suite for a website)

Fair enough. Maybe your sponsors have old laptops they can pass on. Some of the old CAD laptops they use are still pretty powerful.

He’s being sarcastic.

You never know these days

Edit: And I’m tired and bad at reading

I ran emacs on a LEGO Mindstorms EV3 once ::rtm:: ::rtm:: ::rtm::

I’m sure the EV3 is capable of running many operating systems.