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 I’m going to leverage some of the newfound support for scala that vim has.