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?
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.)
I've really been enjoying Helix, which took a lot of inspiration (including key binds, mostly) from Kakoune. It's just missing a plugin system to be perfect, but built in LSP support is soo nice
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For everyone who has not already, this is so worth a read: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
"WYGIWYG" - love it
Thank you. I had not read that before. The novice's first steps are just wonderful.
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?
Not sure, but I think emacs at least used to have a reputation as a resourse hog and bloated. So maybe that?
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.
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
ctrlnext toa.)I mean, it is old. Can't blame it.
What about ed?
I've really been enjoying Helix, which took a lot of inspiration (including key binds, mostly) from Kakoune. It's just missing a plugin system to be perfect, but built in LSP support is soo nice
I'm afraid to see it's comeback for nano.
Just use duckduckgo.com and everyone will be happy.
/usr/bin/joe mama
Y NOT NANO THO? /s
I meant
vim, but no hard feelings.