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[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 69 points 1 month ago (3 children)

For everyone who has not already, this is so worth a read: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

[–] burrito82@feddit.de 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thank you. I had not read that before. The novice's first steps are just wonderful.

[–] themusicman@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

"WYGIWYG" - love it

[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is awesome. But one question as I'm not so familiar with emacs: Why do they punish someone when trying to use emacs but not vi? Why do you see emacs as something works?

[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Not sure, but I think emacs at least used to have a reputation as a resourse hog and bloated. So maybe that?

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

emacs is not that hard. You can learn emacs in one day—every day.

[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I really f'ing love Emacs, and... this is true. I'm still constantly learning, 3 decades in.

But that's part of its appeal - it's a constantly evolving, you tweak and modify it for your needs, and you grow and change together.

[–] finestnothing@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm very partial to doom emacs. I love the emacs ecosystem but the default editor made me want to cry, doom emacs gives the awesome text editing of vim with the awesome ecosystem of emacs (significantly smoother than viper too)

[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

it always entertains me when a vim aficionado regurgitates the "just missing a good editor" joke, given that one of the editors Emacs offers is a pretty comprehensive clone of vim.

(personally, I never had any problem with the default editor when I migrated to it from vi, though I was using a keyboard that already had ctrl next to a.)

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 month ago

I mean, it is old. Can't blame it.

[–] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Kakoune is probably the only editor that respects the UNIX philosophy, and I love it. But I also don't like how there's no linter and formatter for the same - maybe a daemon-based approach is probably better?

[–] lengau@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago

What about ed?

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

I've really been enjoying Helix, which took a lot of inspiration (including key binds, mostly) from Kakoune. It's just missing a plugin system to be perfect, but built in LSP support is soo nice

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I'm afraid to see it's comeback for nano.

[–] Heavybell@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

/usr/bin/joe mama

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Y NOT NANO THO? /s

[–] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Just use duckduckgo.com and everyone will be happy.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

I meant vim, but no hard feelings.