Anyone who finds fault with this list = Skill issue.
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Sounds like vim is aspiring to be Emacs.
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.
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
EMACS CURED MY AUTISM!
in only + / - bilions of years!
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.
For those who haven’t seen this amazing interview:
This is one of those threads where it is like all of you are just speaking funny(?) gibberish at each other.
That’s not gibberish, those are hilarious jokes using sophisticated vim commands. Here’s another, which you have no hope of understanding, but vim users will love:
:%s/ass/butt/g
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
This would be more believable with eMacs tbh
This would be funnier if it were emacs since that’s the one that has a metric ton of plugins for all of these
If you use Vim you’ll never use any other software
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!
I would respond… but I can’t figure out how to exit Vim
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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
I much prefer handwriting in shorthand, scanning it in, running it through OCR, and cat to a file.
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.
Text editors should be simple and approachable above all. Nano is undeniably the best by this definition.
I do not agree with your premise. Some editors should be simple and approachable above all. Some should also be super customizable and efficient to use for those who want do dive deep into their editor.
I probably should have specified that I use a GUI IDE for the most part and text editing on the CLI is usually just quick changes to config files on servers and stuff. If you do your main dev work in CLI, respect and yeah you should be using Vim or Emacs with a shitload of customization.
it feels like it was made quickly after people complained about vim or emacs bein too hard and then just minimally maintained
It’s good enough for the requirement.
Can’t remember key-combinations? You have a list right there.
It’s for those who just need the occasional file editing usingsshorsudo.
For anything more, you havevimand you can configure stuff to your liking. Nothing needs to be added tonano.
Text editors should be simple and approachable above all.
Why? I’d say they should edit text well above all.
I’ve been daily driving nano for years, I wish it was less of an afterthought when people debate text editors.
As a simple terminal editor with no bells and whistles it works great, I used it a lot at my last job when I had to make a small tweek on a program that was loaded on the “build server”.
It’s simple, easy to use, and doesn"t fight you.
For simple edits to single text files nano has to be my most used editor. Vim is a close second though.
For editing code, I’ve used just about everything for one reason or another but it’s usually just my IDE with the directory open.
"Ed is the standard text editor." Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed: golem> ed ? help ? ? ? quit ? exit ? bye ? hello? ? eat flaming death ? ^C ? ^C ? ^D ? --- Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity. "Ed is the standard text editor." Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all. ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!! When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor". Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!! TEXT EDITOR. When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their "edlin" on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard. Ed is for those who can *remember* what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED "VISUAL" EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!
and finally you replace vim with nano
Pro tip for new VIM users: it’s “Q”.
real G’s use
edYou misspelled Emacs
Honestly it’s kinda true except for Photos and Maps. Everything that is not fundamentally visual by nature can pretty efficiently be done with Vim. It truly excels at manipulating and navigating through text.
