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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Why quit out of the superior text editor?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

If you were talking about emacs, sure. But this is vi(m), it's not even a web browser, let alone a full operating system.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh, is that what we're gonna do today? We're gonna fight?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I didn't make such statement, don't strawman me into this fight. But OP asked why you would need to exit out of it. Well maybe because one needs to do other things than edit text. Which wouldn't be the case if one were to use emacs.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Now you've gone and made this personal, buddy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I'm not your friend, pal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Why would you do anything other than edit text? That's what a pc is for!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A question that's been on my mind for a while: can you run vim in emacs? That way you'd have the best editor in the most comprehensive OS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

In theory you can fire up vi(m) in an emacs terminal, so... I guess?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why would I want an OS to edit text? It's already on *nix - I want the best text editor smh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Ahh. ed

Just kidding. It’s vi.

[–] MajorHavoc 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

After decades using Vim, I wouldn't choose to exit it... But it would have been nice to have had a choice...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

the superior text editor

I never stopped, I'm still using Nano.