According to the chart I could be saving better seconds per year by continuing to edit my vim configuration
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2024
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And if you don't, the emacs users win.
Me who uses Nano:
can you explain emacs to me? I get vim, wow keyboard, very fast. But what is emacs and why do I hear about it everywhere?
Emacs is a text editor at its core, just like vim. The difference is that emacs is extendable. You can write, or install, custom packages for it to make it do damn near anything you ever want, far, far above and beyond just text processing.
Vim is simple and unobtrusive, it has a job and it performs that job and nothing else. It is the purest essence of a text editor. Emacs is an all purpose tool that can be tweaked and changed based on your current or future needs. They appeal to different types of nerds.
I can't understand this chart
If I do it and spent amount of time optimizing it, I can save time? like what?
If you do a task daily, and you can shave one second off it, you save 30 minutes in 5 years. So as long as you spend less than that developing whatever tool or technique making it more efficient, you end up saving more time than you spent optimizing.
oh ok, thx
I love this and am glad to see it again after all these years. Other considerations, in addition to time, might be 1) whether the project taught you something new, and 2) if there is some mental or physical health benefit to automating the task
ADHD life.
i'd definitely be more high-functioning if i followed this chart, but i also really don't want to.