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[–] [email protected] 72 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

"WYGIWYG" - love it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months 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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months 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)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months 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.)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

/usr/bin/joe mama

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Y NOT NANO THO? /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Just use duckduckgo.com and everyone will be happy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I meant vim, but no hard feelings.