Real Vim's power

Why Vim is a better option than others code editors? 🤔

Answering this question is really easy: Terminal Power

TL;DR

Use Linux's background processes along side Vim to improve your workflow. 😎

Terminal power 🦾

As a Vim user your first super power is the terminal!

If you're using NeoVim (AKA vim), hopefully not GUI version, you are inside the Terminal:

But what it means... 🤔

That means that you're a first class citizen of the amazing world of terminal! congrats 🎉

as a citizen you could enjoy your rights:

• Customize your terminal as you want 💅
• Run your NPM commands in a proper place 💆
• Entry to a new world full of options for you 🌄
• Don't overload your machine with a cumbersome IDE 🥵
• And even more...

OK but...

When you opens Vim you can't use your terminal bucause vim occupies all your terminal, so, should I open a new terminal, that is not great 😒

Whell, that is not true at all ✅

because you have been entry in a new world, then, so you have a new bunch of options to use in your workflow, and, one of that options is foreground and background processes in Linux/Unix.

What is background processes? 😕

Are processes in linux that are send to background (sleep 😴), so if you have a process that is running in your terminal you could send it to background and voila! you have your terminal free to do another task! 💫

How to send processes to background? ⏸️

We could call background as bg and to do that you just need to use the key conbination: Ctrl + z

How to bring back the process to forground? ▶️

You just need to use the command fg (foreground) to bring it back!

How it will improve your workflow? 📈

Well, let's suposse you are in Vim working in your stuff, and you realize you need execute a command like:

• find a file
• run a unit test
• or run any other command/script
• search for a key word in a folder

In my workflow I constantly am trying to find a key word in my root folder, so I send vim to background find the key word blazing fast 🏎 and return to vim to continue hands on editing files 👔

How it looks:

Trust me, it is really fast as you could swith between different stuff and it feels natural and just at your fingettips! 🖐 🚀

Enjoy!