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Holy sh*t. I just realized, Prime is Dr. Disrespect in an alternate universe. The voice. The moustache. The humor. It's **all** there.
Dr. Unrespect
yeah, pretty well known, and people used to meme about it a lot
Dr disrespect his marrage wishes he was smart enough to talk abou anything other than infidelity
Dr. Bitrespect
4:37 I almost always have it open just so that the screen has some padding and I am looking at the center of the screen for the code.
Of course, as long as the code isn't too indented. So never with our messy PHP backend.
bro re-equipped the blue hair again
Is he rocking a filter? Real > all
BlueHairAgen
Hair color spray. I think it can be taken off with a wash.
I hate it
@@PaulSebastianM Way to shatter the illusion.
He did the mandatory classic EMACS dunk, but he didn't do the mandatory classic VIM dunk: VIM has two modes, one that beeps, and one that breaks your file.
My life is already broken. There are no downsides.
I actually have Dracula mode on, with 0 udemy courses finshed
Dracula is just good, imo.
Close to Solarized Dark, but "warmer".
Buut maybe I've just coded in JVM stuff for too long xd
Me too. But I haven't even started any. Sublime + JetBrains editor combo
Cherry vscode theme is the best you mongs
I prefer dracula because it is on everything and I like the color
@@lucasjames8281I used to have it during the very first week I use nvim (because Primeagen). And it’s just bland. I need dracula’s brain stimulus
Files column open helps center the code window. Yea. It’s a thing. Any column will suffice.
Yup, same here.
Side bar opened on the left comfortably offsets code position closer to the center of the screen. The bar can be anything - file explorer, git view, tests view, whatever.
I really felt extra strain on eyes going neovim or helix without this comfortable padding on the left.
For that I use "Deditor.distraction.free.mode=true" in Intellij and no-neck-pain.nvim plugin in nvim.
same here, but you can also use something like zen mode to center the code
All that empty space at the right of your code can be disconcerting. At what point does that abyss start staring back?
@@NeilHaskinsjust make longer lines - what are we paying by the column!? 😂
I have a file explorer open mostly so that my code is more towards the center of the screen (the only valid reason for one)
Woohoo, I'm not the only who does this. :D
If you're using vsc, there is zen mode, might be cool to try out
Same here, my screen is just way too big.
@@gearmaxim Zen mode. We all know it's there, but I've never used it - I can see using a minimalist mode when writing prose, but coding? Just never felt "natural."
Just use word and use the center tekst option
The real reason why the file editor stays open is because we forgot the shortcut to toggle it and are too lazy to look it up
ctrl-b by default, I think
You can literally click on the explorer button to collapse it 😂
@@davidzwitsermouse is cringe
@@spl420 filling your screen with stuff you don’t need is even more cringe. But best to know the shortcuts indeed
@@jojobinx6326 Stop it, we didn't want to know! No my brain has to put effort into not remembering this!
I’m safe. He didn’t mention Acme, the editor Rob Pike wrote for Plan 9. I’m too hipster to be caught.
Acme is interesting. So is Willy, which is Acme but for X11.
Nice. This video only hurts real developers.
Nice try digital nomad.
I'm kind of like a T-Rex. If I don't toggle my file manager every once in a while, I begin to think my files don't exist.
clever girl
Me too, I'm glad I'm not alone
I do love prime discovering some of the absolutely idiotic takes Stallman has.
Dude, that shit is wild
good thing his social takes are completely unrelated to his take on software freedom
ngl, I paused the video and googled that shit to be check if that was real or not.
I'm dutch-ish and I remember that pedo party, it was called The Party for Neighbourly Love, Freedom, and Diversity or PNVD for short. They never went anywhere but where active till the 20's. The pro-animal always gets my vote, that's more my thing.
@meTimeagen Same origins of what the R st Fun dation quietly supports.
Plain, unadulterated sublime is honestly the best non-CLI editor. It's the gift that keeps on giving. The best CLI editor is echo "" >> file and echo "" > file
I literally use Sublime because I’m used to the specific colors of sublime and I don’t like change
@@kluehouse7316 Monokai on sublime is bae
0:42 thats not a cube brain, that is a tesseract brain!
The way you get cube brain is you start applying to hyper specific mailing lists. Never code in rust for the Linux kernel. Spend 20 years in the past to become a manager in the Linux kernel. Going to the future to bring back your favorite hype language into the present.
Customize the Haskell compiler to output intelligible C.
4:48 hi, professional software developer of 15 years who always has his file tree open here 👋
The ridiculous number of times I’m working with complex file trees that require constant juggling of open vs not open vs diff/compared vs narrower find in files scope, etc etc etc is numerous and daily. I find my anxiety rises when I have it collapsed because then I’m trusting often imperfect intellisense like operations and my own a shitty memory to resolve file paths or deep reference some class member.
My ability to navigate the file tree is often faster than the Find Anywhere/Everywhere type operations of waiting for things like VSCode to have its autocomplete try and “resolve“
What about fuzzy finders? (C-p in Vscode). You can type in the query sort-of-wrong and still get there (hence fuzzy). Can you really navigate 10k files projects using the file tree?
@@andreimoraru1043 not saying fuzzy finders aren't useful, they tend to also get marred down with a ton of irrelevant results, I use them occasionally and especailly when something I want is so deeply nested, but I generally have it mapped in my head exactly where it is anyways
I simply have an Ultra wide so it doesn't bother me
@@andreimoraru1043Can you really navigate 10k files project without files tree? How do you remember what files are there to be able to navigate them by finding? Fuzzy search can help a lot but still
@@dsvechnikov The biggest projects I navigate around is only around 5k files, but I would throw the question in reverse, how would you effectively navigate with a file tree. With emacs I have find-file in project, find buffer in project (open file for simplicity), global find file (starting in the directory of the currently open file), global find buffer, I can pull up a file explorer if I really need to (dired), but that is rarely the case. There is also various grep commands. All of these I can navigate with fuzzy search + previews (from the Vertico+Marginalia extensions). I also know (Neo)Vim has all of this through some fuzzy finding plugins.
I couldn't imagine using something other than fuzzy finding + something like the excelent buffer and project management of emacs for traversing such projects. You almost don't even have to think of where you are, you just end up where you need to be.
The reason people liked the IBM keyboard was that IBM has serious ergonomics labs who experimented and tested with thousands of typists. They didn’t reduce the design to match a price point fit for devices expected to last a year and be tossed.
Had serious ergonomics labs but decided to settle on the 6.25 unit space bar instead of a shorter space bar that has easier access to Alt keys?
Staggered row makes no sense from an ergonomics perspective, it's an historical design choice.
Also, the numpad is bad ergo if you use a mouse (shoulder over-extension).
It does look super cool though, too bad it does not have a super key!
@@zyriab5797 row stagger doesn't really matter, especially for a keyboard that isn't split
I use Colemak-Dh and I wish my laptop's keyboard was ortholinear. Getting that J (Y) is kind of a pain in the butt. Especially since it's a major Vim key!
@@zyriab5797it wouldn't be much easier to reach on an ortho, honestly. The difference in the distance would be like 3.5 mm.
A keyboard being split really makes 95% of the ergonomics difference, alongside a split space bar, and it really makes keys easier to reach as well. Ortho really shines on a split keyboard, and on a regular keyboard it can actually make it more difficult to type for some people. For example, Colemak-DH D and H are very easy to hit, but they become slightly more difficult on an ortho (without split) unless you bend your wrists laterally even more than a row-staggered keyboard.
Here's my suggestion: swap J with Q, that should make J easier to hit in Vim without sacrificing the typing
4:33 That line "Are you lost?" after a pause almost killed me. I was eating bread and cheese and the sudden fit of laughter as I swallowed almost killed me.
Thanks you. I now have a better idea of the value of my life.
This "Are you lost?" question is certainly the most humiliating to ask to someone pretending to be a genius with a computer. I keep it. I will make a good use of it. Thank you. Simple, straightforward, efficient, apparently naive yet extremely vicious. Elegant.🤩
I was waiting to see your reaction for this🤣
I watched that video and navigated vs code file explorer to the right side fr, IT IS REALLY GOOD NOW!
Sometimes I let the file manager open on my text editor to make the text more towards the center
Most of the reasons why I keep a file explorer open is so I don’t need to look all the way to the left of my 27” screen lol 😂
I have a 34" left screen and 27" right one. I keep docs, tools, types, and reference code on the left. I keep code I'm actively building/changing on the right of that. This makes it pretty much center on that window and fairly center between both screens.
What you can also do is just not have a fullscreen window. It's okay :P
15:01 love me my jetbrains products. Happy All Products subscriber for like 7 years
15:28 also love me my Visual Studio proper
4:25 The reason I keep the file explorer open is because my screen is so wide that if I close it, the code is just oddly too much to the left side of the screen and I need to keep my head just slightly turned, but enough to be bothering me! And why I have this so precise reason. Because every now and then (at least once a day), I close it telling to my self what I don't need it, but promptly open it just to have the code in front of me, not on the side 😂
There is a zen mode in vscode. It has changed how much I FOCUS on the code itself.
4:50 to center the code/text, I don’t want to constantly look at the left side if my monitor, it’s either that or empty space to center the code/text.
im not even sure how to feel about this. as an embedded sw dev, I went through multiple flavors of eclipse (from different mcu/compiler vendors) for 15 years before i discovered vs code and felt i was at home finally
4:44: HEY, even as a NeoVim user I like having the File Tree open (all be it on the Left side, not the right one.)
It is more of a Gap filler though. The ideal Line length is 120 Characters.
The File-Tree helps to center the Text in a Position I'm actually looking at.
Since the File Tree is part of the editor, it can be easily collapsed once I need to reclaim that space for a split or something else.
4:13 What is the size of your screen?!? 32K 450"?
@@gjermundification Would be cool, but no.
At home a 16" 1080p
At the Office a 21" 1080p
Sadly both 16:9 aspect ratio.
Plenty of room on both of those to fit at least two 80 to 120-character editors side by side or one centered one.
How do you have screen real estate for a file tree then,@@AScribblingTurtle?
@@gjermundification Small to normal font size and a good pair of glasses maybe?
I don't see how you couldn't have enough real estate, even on the 16" Screen.
Both nvim-tree and NERDTree (Whatever you prefer) are only around 30 Characters wide.
Plus I never said, they are open all the time.
If you need the space, they can be closed easily.
I must admit I do prefer telescope, it's contextual @@AScribblingTurtle
Well shit. I'm a C# developer in a decent sized middle class home in Idaho with a dad bod. Called the hell out.
I actually wanted to be a digital nomad already in 80s.
IBM was the first tactile one.
The model M popularized the buckling spring design, but there were plenty of other tactile switch designs before that. I think beam spring would be the most commonly known. My guess would be that the main reason Model Ms got there reputation is that so many people actually had a chance to use them.
You wanted a 5100 didn't you?
The open file tree on the right side is very good for debugging or looking into libraries that don't have a lot of documentation. Also very useful when trying to understand the structure of a project. When you're a freelancer for example to get into a codebase maybe once in 3 to 6 months and then the file tree becomes very handy.
Also it's showing off how big of a monitor you have and how you. have soft line wraps at 120 characters.
4:21. I can answer that question; it is simple. Nowadays, we have monitors that are able to display 4K resolutions. However, despite this capability, programmers tend to write no more than 80 characters per line (as fitting all the content into one line can make the code less readable). So, even if I have opened the file explorer, it remains there instead of being blank space
Cry in 1080p monitor 😭
He works in a terminal, so he doesn't have space for a file explorer. He's just bu,tthurt, his opinion doesn't matter.
@@quarteratomsounds like butthurt xd
You just made my evening😂. Still crying out laughing while I'm writing
This may have been the funniest video i ever seen you react to.
I have a horrible sense of humour and never laugh but when he said
"Git can eat a ___" I lost it
the absolute best thing about this video is getting a live reaction of prime learning about stallman
Eclipse is preferred among embedded software engineers and they keep the file explorer open to jump between files as a feature is being coded. One also has an emulator and a dev board on the bench.
I don't use the file explorer that stays open all the time, I use some other way(doubleshift on intellij, cmd+p on vscode) to get to files. I just have the comfort of looking at my code at some margin from the left, if that margin happens to have the files listed, I'll roll with it
I have file explorer always open in my Microsoft Visual Studio 2024 Enterprise Professional Ultimate Edition *on second 32" monitor.*
The IBM Model M - it's all about the feels and sound of buckling spring switches
First PC-- though not the first computer-- I owned (or rather, that my parents bought) was an IBM PS/2 486SX 25MHz with 4 MB of RAM (later upgraded to 8 MB). So many memories of that PC: every computer I have had after that has been vastly superior to that in every way except one-- the IBM model M keyboard. It didn't need the windows key, you could just ctrl+escape to get the start menu to pop up when windows 95 came out. People who have customized mechanical keyboards now think they understand, but they don't.
Sublime 4 and jQuery 4, 2024 is the new 2014
We never went extinct, we kept on cooking.
I keep my file explorer open to see which files have errors/warnings when I compile. Primarily library fetch errors that my LSP misses for some reason.
I also keep it open to see if the files I want to generate do so.
I program embedded devices.
What's the problem with file explorers? I do use nerdtree because I can't memorize the exact name of every folder in the projects I'm working on. When I know the name of the file I need I just open Telescope and type the name, but most of the time I simply cannot remember the name of the folders lmao. Do you guys actually remember all of the folder's names?
I have Sublime Text 4 installed. It doesn't show that alert anymore. I never paid either!
I went to Brazil last year, it was great! Have fun!
I have my file explorer open to have my code more to the center of my screen instead of at the left edge. Also, how does this work if you use VS Code with a vim extension?
This is the funniest primeagean video in a while😂😂😂. Outgenioused Tom
for the neovim section he just watched like 2 prime videos and took rough notes.
My world changed once I started using Neovim, Telescope and Harpoon. I was using Cmd+P in VS Code, but once I switched to Neovim setting up Telescope and Harpoon is what kept me in the ecosystem. They're just so damn useful.
Bro became biblically accurate rust programmer (again)
Around 10+ years ago I used some IDE for MASM32 that let me wysiwyg build winapi gui with 32bit assembly haha - what does that say? Crazy?
I immediately closed the file explorer on my IDE and I realized that I don't even use it at all. I love these eye opener videos.
Turning off the always open file tree pane increased my personal short term memory by a locally benchmarked 10x.
Allow me a moment to overdramatize. I am someone who has the file explorer open most of the time when I am coding. I am a proponent of "If your code isn't understandable with only local information, then it isn't understandable", and the file structure and by extension the module structure is usually the only major connection to the big picture I feel like I need most times. If I have a question about how some function or class ties into the big picture of the project (in a well organized project) I can usually answer that question with a 3 second glance at the file explorer.
Even in badly organized projects, the file explorer contains a lot of information about programmer intent that would take months of learning otherwise. It's a small piece, but when you're working on code that you don't know like the back of your hand that piece of information is important.
I spent most of my time as a junior developer with my head underwater in code bases that were too big with no introduction from a fellow human whatsoever. So I learned to speak the language that was presented to me. The source code, and even the organization of the source code is the programmer communicating with the build system, but in doing so they are also communicating a lot of information that they may or may not have realized.
But whatever. In scenarios where you have a large amount of other information sources, the file explorer isn't that useful. But in my experience when you get thrown into shark infested waters, it just might be the difference between being eaten alive and surviving comfortably. I am very at home in extremely low information coding environments (which are very common in "enterprise"), and I think a big part of that is making use of every source of information that I have available to the fullest. Pick a random bug report on a random project on the internet somewhere. I am pretty confident that I could solve it almost as fast as someone who has been working on the project actively for a couple of years. I don't think many people would be able to make that claim and be right about it.
i have a file tree open at all times because when i was learning nvim and netrw and shit at like 4am i was setting it up and i didnt wanna learn too many keybinds at once, so i set up nerdtree to open on startup, atp i just like it being there because the few times i tried to close it code looks weird.
the funniest part is i only use netrw, harpoon, and telescope godforbid i need to actually look for something. the tree is just there because it feels weird if it wasnt there. the tree has been there since i started on my vim journey, i brought it with me when i switched to neovim, and ill probably always have it. just a reminder of where i started and how far ive come
When I do have the file explorer opened in VSCodium, I do have it on the right. Why would I put it on the left? So that whenever I open it, shifts everything to the right?
It's not that I have to have the file explorer open in the IDE (it can be closed if it gets in the way), but my screen is horizontal (I know people who rotates it to be vertical, but I just don't). So even with 3-way diffing I can have the file explorer open and not in the way. Maybe not the best use of screen estate, but that's what I settled with.
lol you pulled that keyboard abomination up and i nearly spit all over mine. LMAO
4:15 The answer is: Me cooking some "OOP Spaghetti".
that IBM keyboard was basically the first one that our current "standard" format came from, and to make things even better, it has mechanical switches. granted they're super super loud buckling spring switches if I remember correctly, but still, in the days of these modern mechanical keyboard nerds, this was the world tree
The analogy of a file tree to a map makes a lot of sense. I like my maps.
This guy tooked the lua pill so hard that he's gonna fly to Brazil
I leave the file editor (and terminal) open so it looks cooler when someone walks past my desk
Why do I love my IBM Model M keyboard, and have one put into regular service at the office? One, because I'm into old computers; my place is full of them and they're all brimming with upgradiness. Two, it is an absolute workhorse of a keyboard, and a joy to type on. Three, you can beat your interrupting coworkers over the head with it and go right back to typing.
What does it mean if we use vscode with vim extension?
o god i lost it when he lifted his 'keyboard'
First editor was a set of toggle switches. Then line based editor at 300 baud. ( a screen of text could take minutes to display ) qed/vi style allowed fast motion through the file in line mode. Once you could use screens that worked, then anything that is fast display. Turn off syntax checking on older machines since it slowed stuff down! So the answer is any editor that works on the system you use!
the keyboard got me off guard
I enjoy perusing files through the file tree every now and then. It's like taking the scenic route on a drive, I just feel like it sometimes.
Two minutes in this is dangerously accurate...
I use VScode instead of notepad because I can press ctrl+z more than once... can it do more than that? (asking for a friend)
The reason I have my file explorer open all the time is to center the code on the big screen so my neck doesn't hurt
Oh hey i actually love to see my files exactly because its like the map and i am lost. It gives me the broader idea about the project structure and kinda reassures me in what i am trying to do now. It's something about putting the code i am writing into a broader perspective or something idk it is just a subconscious thing
I'm not sure which one I prefer - open tabs on both sides to squeeze the text area into 80 columns or hide all the tabs and just make the font huge.
I just realized why i never understood the argument against vscode is probably because I would use it more like an IDE than a text/code editor.
!!
P.S. That vscode description was painfully PAINFULLY accurate. apart from Udemy, 0 courses purchased.
P.S.S. These days I'm rocking a sleek monokai
Bro managed to come at me in the VS Code part with that FiraCode mention even though I use neovim! 😂
I have a file explorer open at all times, because it centers the code I am writing. Hear me out, you got an IDE open, full screen, and your code is on the left side and for ME, my monitor is centered on my desk, so when I sit down (i know L, no standing desk, I live in a dorm ok?) I am looking in the center of my screen mostly and its just convenient to have my code roughly centered, and the file explorer, besides being useful to hop between files (duh) is centering my code
if your code took only 80 chars what else you display if not file tree?
It all started in my childhood bedroom with my first Windows 95 computer. Windows was constantly broken, so I bought a Linux magazine with a CD at a gas station and installed Suse. You always feel so unique and then the Internet came along and I had to realize that I was just an archetype who used Thinkpads, Linux and Vim.
All your videos that mention Brasil always appear in my recomendations. I am brazilian. The algorithm knows what it is doing
Yes my editor
That is a very old quote and RMS retracted it years ago:
14 September 2019 (Sex between an adult and a child is wrong)
Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it.
Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why.
He didn't mention my code editor, ms paint! Nooo!
I was just looking at Helix and this came out...
(Because it was such a pain configuring nvim on my ubuntu laptop, but I mainly use a windows desktop and I know its gonna be config hell. then I remembered Helix. But haven't downloaded anything yet. Still using vs code but I wanted a low friction fast editor to just... go)
Primeagen coming to Brazil??? LETS GOOOOO
As an owner of one of the split keyboards, I say, yes, it is supervillian-esque.
Thank you, you are forcing me to close my file explorer everytime lol
10:39 it's one of the only keyboard still being manufactured today with sharp tactility and actually designed to be clicky instead of it being a unintended side effect
That's one of the things I hate about vscode, it automatically opens up the file tree on launch. I have to close it every time (ctrl+b).
I have a file explorer open at all times, and it's because I'm used to the margin it gives the code sections position on the screen 😂
7:01 oh lord its too perfect. freeze frame right here for the face or shame LOL. I *crying* XD
Hmm. I am a VSCoder who uses VIM emulator and always on focus screen to avoid menu bars or file explorer. How should I feel now?
The file tree open on the left adds a buffer pushing the code into the center of the monitor.
If it wasn't for that, it would be hidden...
Need the file tree open so i can keep an eye on my files. If I hide them they might sneak off to the pub.
I felt like "hacerker-man" using the embebed VB from Excel back in the late 90s when I was in high school learning about programming. Afterwards in the early 2000s I learnt Java and programming in general with Kawa IDE and JBuilder... What a wild time 😂
The biggest reason I switched to neovim is because my 2012 thinkpad t430 started to struggle with VSCode...
I keep my file-explorer open all the time, so my code is a little bit more in the center of my screen.
Not completely centered, just moved a little bit more to the center.
Always closing tabs once I did what I wanted and constantly switching files. This is why my file explorer is most of the time open
sublime GOATed
In vertical slice project, I cant live without file explorer. I need a visual cue of how the project is organized
"I might have just finished listening to the transplants" 😂
Bro roasted me and all of dev-dom so brutally I may never recover
I always have a file explorer open because :
I made a program that watches some folders and take them as input for my team of designers. It is easier to maintain than a web interface and easier to use (just open your file explorer and drag and drop your images boom)
4:25 It moves the code more toward the center of the screen. It sometimes bother me when the code is too close to the edge
ibm model m keyboard is actually the best feeling keyboard I ever use, I stopped using it though because it wakes up my entire family at night