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vim is all i need and is all i’ll ever need.
Emacs* is bloatware
Vims just bloat on ed
ed is the only answer.
Our true salvation
*being an acronym for "Eight Megabytes And Currently Swapping"
You can't spare 8 meg? I have games that want 8 gig
I have 16 Megs of RAM. I'm not going to waste 50% of it on a damn text editor.
But what if you don't get it?
Ed. /s
(Except actually I guess that could happen)
vim is for people who want to see the file they are editing