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by guerrilla6 hours ago |
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upvoteby troyvit2 hours ago|
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I don't use it this way yet, but aider has a watch mode that would be fun with vim:

https://aider.chat/docs/usage/watch.html

I imagine with vim, from the document you're editing, you'd go:

:ter

to get a terminal. Fire up aider with --watch-files in the terminal. Hop back up to the file and start telling it what to do. Hit L when it's done to see the changes.

That's just a guess but after writing it out I kinda want to try it.

When I use aider it's via its chat interface and then I load the file with vim in another terminal tab to follow along but I think --watch-files with vim would be fun.

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upvoteby flexagoon5 hours ago|
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At least for Neovim, there are many official or community-made AI autocomplete plugins, and a bunch of chat interfaces as well
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upvoteby era866 hours ago|
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tmux + vim + Claude Code
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upvoteby bicx6 hours ago|
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This. With so much of my work being done with Claude Code via terminal, I’ve used vim and tmux more than I have in the 20 years since I was first introduced.
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upvoteby linhns5 hours ago|
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How many people don’t know tmux in the industry is really beyond me.
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upvoteby tommy_axle3 hours ago|
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With all the buzz about orchestrating in the age of CLI agents there doesn't seem to be much talk about vim + tmux with send-keys (a blessing). You can run as many windows and panes doing so many different things across multiple projects.
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upvoteby jimmaswell5 hours ago|
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What's the elevator pitch if I already know Screen and I can just open multiple windows of the terminal emulator?
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upvoteby mystifyingpoi4 hours ago|
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No pitch - just use screen, most people use tmux in exactly the same way - open a few splits and switch between them with keyboard shortcuts.
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upvoteby hibbelig5 hours ago|
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I switched from screen to tmux due to rumor about the screen code base. Maybe not a good reason. But I don’t regret it, tmux works well.

Just an honest opinion of someone who didn’t have skin in the game. Not sure if it helps.

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upvoteby Keyframe6 hours ago|
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same, although I'm using zellij instead of tmux. Copilot works well in vim too.
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upvoteby sorentwo5 hours ago|
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Nearly this, but using ghostty instead of tmux. You don’t get the remote connection aspect of tmux, but for splitting/zooming/preserving windows it is fantastic. The best part is you can configure natural shortcuts rather than using a leader for everything.
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upvoteby dotancohen4 hours ago|
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As a tmux user, sell me on ghostty. I hate the leader key, especially in VIM.
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upvoteby Carrok6 hours ago|
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The copilot plugin works well
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upvoteby guerrilla6 hours ago|
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That's good to know. I've never actually tried Copilot. I was going to try this week.
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upvoteby metrix5 hours ago|
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Totally worth it. I tied it to openrouter.ai so that I could use 'all the AI's' (TM)

Totally worth it

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upvoteby qsort6 hours ago|
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AI makes advanced IDE features less relevant (or, more precisely, much easier to ignore or work without.)

I still have PyCharm, especially for working with data which I do a lot it helps quite a bit, but by default I'm back to a very vanilla Vim setup. Others have mentioned tmux which is great and I'd use anyway especially over ssh, but even just terminal tabs for instances of agents are fine frankly.

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upvoteby drawnwren5 hours ago|
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Avante.nvim is quite active
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