I like the idea of SSH’ing into a tmux session when doing work on a remote machine so that I can reconnect right where I left off.

However, I don’t like it when the internet connection is unstable, and you must reconnect whenever you drop off. Or, when I close my laptop for a couple of hours and open it back up to a crashed terminal emulator. I tried using mosh as I’ve done with IRC before, but I didn’t like how the terminal scrolling & copy/paste behaviour was affected unintuitively by mosh & tmux.

First, make it more like Vim

My frst step for any IDE setup is to make it more like Vim using whichever extension/plugin they have to offer :)

(you can even do this with browser text fields via wasavi)

So, for VSCode I used the main vim plugin,

and then added the following keybindings.json and settings.json which are found at ~/.config/Code/User/ …

The Quest Continues

In 2012, I started blogging about Vim As My Ide. At that time, I was also going to try and focus on Scala as it was all the rage. However, I didn’t like using clunky IDEs like Eclipse to develop in the Java world, and I didn’t have any pressing reason to continue. Today, I’m back on board the Scala train for work purposes and will leverage some of the newfound support for Scala that Vim has.