Why ?
You are soon going to experience la Piscine. It will be long and hard but you will learn a lot. A lot of the piscine is redundent and you can lose a lot of time doing the same thing over and over. This is why it is important to optimize your workflow.
The first step on your path to optimization is your editor.
Give up on VScode and other aberations. Embrace the simplicity and efficiency of vim.
Vim or Emacs
This is your choice. You can learn either of them. However most people at EPITA use vim. (If you are interested in emacs lookup doom-emacs and look for the few assistance that use and love it. They will be happy to help you).
The most important thing is that your use as many features as possible of the editor of your choice.
The following parts of this subject will be about vim.
Setting up VIM
The first thing you need to know is how to configure Vim.
Look for a file called .vimrc in your $HOME folder. You may not have any by default but you are still using the default .vimrc setted by EPITA.
PIE specific setup
As you aready know, only the $HOME/afs folder is preserved on the PIE. This means that if your create a $HOME/.vimrc it will be lost after a reboot. The soution is to create the file in $HOME/afs/.confs/ and then add the name of the file in the special script in the same folder.
$ touch ~/afs/.confs/vimrc # note that there is not point here
$ vim ~/afs/.confs/install.shAn example of .vimrc (parts of mine)
" remove annoying beep
set belloff=all
" set encoding
set encoding=utf-8 fileencodings=
" enable syntax highlighting
syntax on
" Shows matching brackets
set showmatch
" set visible trailing characters
set list listchars=tab:»\ ,trail:·
" if you really want to use the mouse
set mouse=a
set ttymouse=sgr " wide monitor mouse fix
" set numbers on the left
set number
" set line at 80 char
set cc=80
" indentation
filetype plugin indent on
set autoindent
set smartindent
" set tab size
set expandtab
set shiftwidth=4
set tabstop=4
set softtabstop=4
" custom shotcuts
let mapleader="\<Space>"
nnoremap <Space> <nop>
nnoremap <Leader>f :Explore<CR>
nnoremap <Leader>w :w<CR>
" c braces setup
inoremap {<CR> {<CR>}<Esc>ko
" reduce latency when escaping
set ttimeoutlen=10
" makefiles settings
autocmd Filetype make setlocal noexpandtab
" c files
autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.c,*.h setlocal cinoptions+=:0 " case statement indent fix
autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.c,*.h setlocal comments=s:/**,mb:**,ex:*/,s:/*,mb:**,ex:*/
packadd termdebug