I’ve just recently migrated from Atom to Vim since I was tired of Atom’s bloat (also Electron is awful!), having put off learning Vim for years due to being a bit intimidated. I would honestly recommend it and I wish I could go back in time and learn it sooner. It does have a slight learning curve, but you can become very productive very quickly even just using basic features. It’s already changed the way I work and I have become much more productive. Re your comfort on the commandline; once you’re in the editor you’re mostly ok it’s just a different way of achieving things and navigating.
Vim’s plugin architecture is also incredible, and there’s a lot of good Git plugins. I don’t use one as I always just have a terminal open with git in it, but I’ve seen vim fugitive recommended a lot.
My understanding is that Notepad++ is chiefly a Windows application, indicating you’re on Windows? According to this page you can download gVim for Windows. That has a lot of provision for the mouse, and integrates well with the system clipboard. If you’re on GNU/Linux your distro will most likely have it in the repos. Install vim and vim-gtk. Then you can run gvim to start the editor.
On GNU/Linux one configures their Vim install using .vimrc and within the .vim folder; I’m not sure how it’s configured on Windows systems but this thread might be useful. Lots of folk share their vim configs online, so you can learn by looking and experimenting.
I’ve just recently migrated from Atom to Vim since I was tired of Atom’s bloat (also Electron is awful!), having put off learning Vim for years due to being a bit intimidated. I would honestly recommend it and I wish I could go back in time and learn it sooner. It does have a slight learning curve, but you can become very productive very quickly even just using basic features. It’s already changed the way I work and I have become much more productive. Re your comfort on the commandline; once you’re in the editor you’re mostly ok it’s just a different way of achieving things and navigating.
Vim’s plugin architecture is also incredible, and there’s a lot of good Git plugins. I don’t use one as I always just have a terminal open with git in it, but I’ve seen vim fugitive recommended a lot.
My understanding is that Notepad++ is chiefly a Windows application, indicating you’re on Windows? According to this page you can download gVim for Windows. That has a lot of provision for the mouse, and integrates well with the system clipboard. If you’re on GNU/Linux your distro will most likely have it in the repos. Install vim and vim-gtk. Then you can run gvim to start the editor.
On GNU/Linux one configures their Vim install using .vimrc and within the .vim folder; I’m not sure how it’s configured on Windows systems but this thread might be useful. Lots of folk share their vim configs online, so you can learn by looking and experimenting.
Welcome to the Vim side of the force.