I’m in data science and a lot of what I do involves using HTML to present visualizations of my data. I like it cause I can make buttons and stuff for customers to view the data. Sadly, this is the one step in my pipeline where I have to rely on vs.
I love my neovim setup. It’s just lazy vim really. I love it because I love its design aesthetic and everything is controlled with the keyboard. In particular: I can open panels, an integrated terminal, and move the windows around. Also, the folder hierarchy tree, etc. All keyboard commanded.
But there’s 2 main issues that prevents me from using it more than 20% of my work. 1) images and PDFs are a pain in the butt to view, even with plugins. I tried it all, but there’s always some issue that I don’t have time to debug. For context, I use iterm and I don’t want to use any other terminal. Also, I like being able to zoom in, pan, scroll the images. And PDFs are non-existent really. And 2) remote connecting just sucks. Yes I can install it on my remote machine, but I found there’s issues with viewing images remotely through the remotely installed neovim. Overall, I don’t really want to install anything on the remote, I’d like to access the Remote Desktop through the IDE.
I’m a data scientist so I do (1) and (2) all the time. My job is really just remote connecting to a remote machine, and looking at generated plots. That’s why I’m stuck using VS code. Thing is, while they have vim motions, it ain’t like neovim where I can type :split or :term or C-w w to move panel to panel (incl on terminal. At least I don’t thin you can do that on vs code). Anyways, I was wondering if you were aware of a keyboard commanded text editor with image/pdf and remote connection support.
I tried the neovim GUIs but they don’t really seem to work with remote connection.
Any ideas?