Anyone who finds fault with this list = Skill issue.
This would make more sense with Emacs /ducks
Now I Declare The Start of The Holy EDITOR WAR!!!
NGL this was my first thought, and I don’t even use Emacs!
M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead
EMACS CURED MY AUTISM!
in only + / - bilions of years!
For those who haven’t seen this amazing interview:
what sort of honoric is et al, does it make you plural?
no no McS. et al., PhD is mf actual family name. Trying a bit too hard to get a great academic career.
In case you’re not being sarcastic, et al is a shortening that means “among others” - usually authors of academic papers are clubbed together like this. In this context it is more like, “among other educational qualifications”
While that does make sense, I think I’ll stick to thinking they’re plural.
AMSTERDAM TRIP: 52.37952717594758, 4.898731163397595 -> 52.373726213381254, 4.8991743688343785 -> 52.37307624236834, 4.892481840346751 -> 52.375235597713356, 4.883881824117286 -> 52.364346142549444, 4.882779439603186 -> 52.358151346039655, 4.868920785661565 -> 52.36032825423474, 4.885688072103288 -> 52.38899110197864, 4.8381014035210965
Is this navigation?
VI-Maps
One night there was a storm, and Master Wq’s house collapsed. The next morning he began to build it again using his old tools. His novice came to help him, and they built for a while and were making good progress. As they worked, the novice began to tell Master Wq of his latest accomplishments.
“Master, I have developed a wonderful Vim script to give all sorts of useful information about a document. It counts the words, the sentences, the paragraphs, and even tells you what kind of document it is using the syntax highlighting rules. I use it in my pipelines all the time. It is a thing of beauty, and I am very proud. Truly, Vim is the greatest tool!”
Master Wq did not reply. Thinking he had unwittingly angered his master, the novice fell silent and continued his work.
The novice finished aligning two beams and had positioned a nail ready for beating into the wood, but found the hammer was out of reach.
“Would you pass me the hammer, master?”
Master Wq handed the novice a saw.
At once, the novice was enlightened.
Emacs!
-> Vim
-> nano
-> Microsoft edit 1.0 for Linux
Heh, looks like Microsoft employed someone and just let them do whatever they wanted. So they fucked around and made a text editor in Rust. They even have an anime avatar on github. Definitely doesn’t smell like a microsoft project but hey… if a company feeds you, you gotta put their name on your project.
It’s a great OS it’s just lacking a decent text editor.
I used to spend hours trying to get the image on the right page. Now i use Org-mode LaTeX, and just accept that it’s impossible.
🦶
GNOME -> Vim
Can emacs really do all of this?
Probably… so long as Emacs can be used to open up Vim. :-P
Lmao y’all are degenerates.
It probably can somehow
Probably. I recently installed a bunch of packages so now I use emacs to check my RSS feeds, look up the current word’s definition or synonyms, browse Gopher and Gemini sites, check my email … I told myself I was doing it just for fun to see how much truth there was to the whole “emacs is a great operating system” joke but I genuinely love how handy it all is and I’m worried I’m going to keep falling in even deeper. A part of me does dislike not using purpose built programs for each of those functions (“do one thing and do it well”), but it’s been a fun experiment so far
Huh.
Well godamnit. I gotta check it out now. I’ll be right back, I swear
Theres an emacs map plugin, and a webkit browser, and org mode is basically notes + calendar, you can edit and copy remote files with tramp mode. Theres also an emacs plugin for launching steam games.
Emacs comes with a plugin called “doctor” which is a rudimentary text ai from the 90s
One time I wanted to edit a binary file and I found out emacs comes with a hex editor
Man y’all really are trying to get me to try emacs.
You used the wrong icon. It should be emacs
Yeah, emacs makes way more sense for this one
The only thing emacs is missing is a text editor
That actually made me laugh out loud. Well done
oh man. all the old jokes are new again. shit, am i basically a dad now?
Next thing you know people aren’t going to know that EMACS stands for Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping. Or why that’s funny.
Today I learned
Vi vs EMACS jokes are well within grandpa territory now. Sorry.
I saw that reply and figured I’d just let the whippersnappers enjoy themselves 😅
Grandpa, will you tell me the story about the black and orange computer screens please?
it’s a healthy sign of a community when dad jokes enter the cultural milieu as something that’s passed from generation to generation. we inherited these jokes, handed them down, and someday they’ll be handed down again
Well, seeing as I’m more than a decade younger than emacs… I guess so?
The only thing emacs is missing is a text editor
How dare you. I’m sending the church of emacs after your ass.
Free software song starts playing
That’s why evil-mode exists
C-x M-c M-butterfly
And the only thing preventing us mortals from having such power is the lack of a
butterflykey on our keyboards
yea, emacs even has a doctor
Why do you say that?
M-x doctor
In emacs, ESC then x then type doctor, I remember this from 30 years ago
Is it because you say “I remember this from 30 years ago” that emacs has a doctor?
I am a firm believer of (neo)vim being the pinnacle of editing. My workdays start with vim and end with vim. But vim is not the everything app, which the e in emacs probably stands for.
HOWEVER, there are vim plugins for almost everything, which is pretty cool. This point goes to you, emacs rivals. Let’s keep it between us and not the vs code or IDE weirdos
Is it possible to downvote a comment twice?
Upvote it first.
Genius!
Neovim*
nvim
Only acceptable in eVil form
You surely mean Emacs, no?
He tried to, but couldn’t enter edit mode to type it out
Of course theres a relevant XKCD
This feels like a meme a vim user would make about emacs being bloated
Sounds like vim is aspiring to be Emacs.
only because once you start using vim, you can’t stop. why do you think people make full on operating systems within vim?
because they can’t leave.
This will free you
:q!I’ve been stuck in vim for years, and everyone just brings up this “:q!” emoticon to mock me.
rude
You need to press
Escapetwice, first.
Then pass on the rudeness tovim. It will know
shots fired
You can tell it’s legit, because it says Vi.
The war is still ongoing. Many of us never figured out how to quit Vi.
I much prefer handwriting in shorthand, scanning it in, running it through OCR, and cat to a file.
I sure hope you do Not use a non patched Xerox Workstation for it…
Explanation: They had a bug a few years ago where the scanners would alter numbers due to their compression algorithm.
Vim -> Emacs
Gotta run vim under emacs eshell
This would be more believable with eMacs tbh
If you use Vim you’ll never use any other software
The problem with using Vim is that you have to learn Vim, but early in my career I was in single-ecosystem shops that all used IDE’s for whatever tech (Microsoft= Visual Studio, Java = Eclipse / NetBeans, PHP = Sublime Text, arguably not an IDE)
By the time I got to the point in my career where I got to choose the tooling, VSCode was already a thing and it has an extension for anything you can think of.
So I never had to learn Vim, and now it’s in the too-hard basket, and VSCode is ubiquitous and works surprisingly well
You might change your mind when you hit rock bottom and have to claw your way back with a 2011 shitbox laptop that attempts to kill itself if you dare to open a second firefox tab or, case in point, VSCode or anything that has been built with Electron.
I learnt vim and neovim out of necessity - because it takes only 30 MB on RAM
That silly program can’t trick me! I used Vim last year and I’m totally able to use other programs!
…I just have to use Vim also at all times!
As long as they have a plugin for vim shortcuts. I don’t know how many :w I left strewn over my documents at work.
I would respond… but I can’t figure out how to exit Vim
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So I recently switched to vim as my text editor. And started using vimwiki for notes. But I must know what insanity could one possibly do with a Text editor other than… Well text edit.
