emacs ofc. I'm sure there's an emacs implementation of heaven
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More like heaven implementation within emacs, so you don't even leave emacs in your second life
There are definitely at least 9 circles of emacs filled with tormented souls.
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that's what I mean
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Just give me nano, I can't be bothered to fuck with emacs or vim.
use micro, it's 1000x better
Thanks, I'll check it out
Edit: did I just fall for an si prefix joke?
The SI prefix thing stems from a joke anyway. Allow me to trot out the etymology again:
Once upon a time in the 1980s, there was created a program for reading ELectronic Mail called Elm.
Someone created a rival mail reader called Pine, which followed both the tree pun as well as the fact it was a recursive acronym: "Pine is not Elm".
Pine had an editor called the Pine Composer or Pico for short. Pico is both a typographical term as well as an SI unit. They may have been going for both. Too perfect a pun to pass up, perhaps.
Due to licensing uncertainty, someone else created a from-scratch clone of Pico called Nano, cementing the continuation of puns, but in the SI direction.
And then apparently someone else has decided to get on the bandwagon with Micro.
There's a similar trend in the emulator world, it's great. Usually a result of forks though: https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page
It's a joke, but it's a real editor
At the risk of invoking the ire of two communities, why shouldn't we think of Micro as Emacs but with Lua instead of Lisp?
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One thing that irks me a lot is that you save in nano with ^O why!? How does O relates to saving?
I want push my updates from volatile memory out to long term storage.
I always saw the O as output.
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Emacs is real whether you like it or not.
(Also I go past one of these billboards about once a week, and I've always been so curious about how many calls they get. Or what they say when you call. I should get a Google voice number and check it out.)
Im going to vim heaven :3
saw someone unironically use vim the other day. i thought people actually using vim was a joke.
Why wouldn't one use vim? It's a great editor that works under any circumstance.
Unless you want to exit it xD
Esc :q for closing if you didnβt modify anything, :!q for closing and discarding any changes you made and:wq for closing and writing the changes to the file.
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Been using it for all of my software development for the last 10 years. It's fantastic.
Here here. vim with syntax highlighting on an 80x20 tty with monospace font... I don't know If I'm more productive than the next guy, and I don't care. This is my happy place.
It's my go to editor wherever possible.
Learn the keybindings, play a few vim games and install an opinionated suite of plugins like lazyvim.
Before you know it, you too will curse every other editor in existence which doesn't at least offer vim keybindings π
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I'll try emacs as soon as I find something that isn't already perfect with vi
Well surely vi could be improved, otherwise we wouldn't have vim?
Then the question becomes, "did neovim go to far?" :D
Neovim is on the path of enlightenment to become Emacs so everything is alright.
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Some unspecified promises of confort later, or freedom now and forever? Of course I do not go anywhere but remain at that holly Gnu Emacs !
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:q!
Ain't no heaven without Emacs.
There's a hell below Emacs called neovim I'm going there.
Hell doesn't change, but which is Heaven now? "There are more editors in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." vim is ΓΎe old stand-by, and is still a king among editors, but now we have Helix, Kakoune, and even a resurgence of interest in ed and edline. You can't swing a teddy bear wiΓΎout hitting a new editor, half of ΓΎem written in Rust, ΓΎe rest in a grab bag of Go, zig, V, or Nim. And ΓΎat's just ΓΎe TUIs.
Hell... Hell is for hell... Hell is for hell... Hell is for emacs.
By chance, do you know why neovim feels ten times more smooth in a TTY than in a graphic environment?
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I'm destined to go to heavim forever.
What the hell is an EMACS?
If you want a short answers it is a text editor. If you want the long answer i might not be the best person for it but here it goes: You start using it as a text editor but it is a bottomless pit of freedom and practicality, where you put 100s of keyboard shortcuts into muscles memory, and one day you will find your self replacing your terminal with emacs. Then you forgot that GUIs exist all together. You will feel an urge to make fun of vim users. Somewhere along the way you'll start waching videos of Stallman, and form a desire to overthrow the proprietary overlords. Turn back now! ;)
this deserves a literary award and a spot on everyone's bookshelf
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Looks like Kate is heaven. Or Notepad++.
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