By neildaemond, an 'any-stack' hacking grasshopper.
Taking notes while tinkering with:

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,

Vim Extension For VSCode

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

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