it's a healthy sign of a community when dad jokes enter the cultural milieu as something that's passed from generation to generation. we inherited these jokes, handed them down, and someday they'll be handed down again
I am a firm believer of (neo)vim being the pinnacle of editing. My workdays start with vim and end with vim. But vim is not the everything app, which the e in emacs probably stands for.
HOWEVER, there are vim plugins for almost everything, which is pretty cool. This point goes to you, emacs rivals. Let's keep it between us and not the vs code or IDE weirdos
In case you're not being sarcastic, et al is a shortening that means "among others" - usually authors of academic papers are clubbed together like this. In this context it is more like, "among other educational qualifications"
Heh, looks like Microsoft employed someone and just let them do whatever they wanted. So they fucked around and made a text editor in Rust. They even have an anime avatar on github. Definitely doesn't smell like a microsoft project but hey.. if a company feeds you, you gotta put their name on your project.
Theres an emacs map plugin, and a webkit browser, and org mode is basically notes + calendar, you can edit and copy remote files with tramp mode. Theres also an emacs plugin for launching steam games.
Emacs comes with a plugin called "doctor" which is a rudimentary text ai from the 90s
One time I wanted to edit a binary file and I found out emacs comes with a hex editor
Probably. I recently installed a bunch of packages so now I use emacs to check my RSS feeds, look up the current word's definition or synonyms, browse Gopher and Gemini sites, check my email ... I told myself I was doing it just for fun to see how much truth there was to the whole "emacs is a great operating system" joke but I genuinely love how handy it all is and I'm worried I'm going to keep falling in even deeper. A part of me does dislike not using purpose built programs for each of those functions ("do one thing and do it well"), but it's been a fun experiment so far
That's not gibberish, those are hilarious jokes using sophisticated vim commands. Here's another, which you have no hope of understanding, but vim users will love:
Google Search really sucks these days. I can't find any images of Richard M. Stallman as a Sith lord, even though I'm sure vi fans have made several edits by now. ...It's been a while.
Grrrr. Neovim? I question your devotion to the cause of righteousness. Think well upon your choices lest you too be cast out from the light of the glory of the almighty vim!
From a "giving tech support" POV, nano is the best editor. Have you ever tried walking a non-techie through editing a config file on the command line, over the phone, no screen share? Nano is your friend.
(I swear, this very expensive software I used to support got its sysadmins by picking whoever was absent the day the the client site figured out someone had to do it.)
Vim too. The difference is that emacs cultivates and promotes its omnitool capabilities, while vim hides its equally omnipotent plugins shamefully in https://www.vim.org/scripts/
One night there was a storm, and Master Wq’s house collapsed. The next morning he began to build it again using his old tools. His novice came to help him, and they built for a while and were making good progress. As they worked, the novice began to tell Master Wq of his latest accomplishments.
“Master, I have developed a wonderful Vim script to give all sorts of useful information about a document. It counts the words, the sentences, the paragraphs, and even tells you what kind of document it is using the syntax highlighting rules. I use it in my pipelines all the time. It is a thing of beauty, and I am very proud. Truly, Vim is the greatest tool!”
Master Wq did not reply. Thinking he had unwittingly angered his master, the novice fell silent and continued his work.
The novice finished aligning two beams and had positioned a nail ready for beating into the wood, but found the hammer was out of reach.
The problem with using Vim is that you have to learn Vim, but early in my career I was in single-ecosystem shops that all used IDE's for whatever tech (Microsoft= Visual Studio, Java = Eclipse / NetBeans, PHP = Sublime Text, arguably not an IDE)
By the time I got to the point in my career where I got to choose the tooling, VSCode was already a thing and it has an extension for anything you can think of.
So I never had to learn Vim, and now it's in the too-hard basket, and VSCode is ubiquitous and works surprisingly well
You might change your mind when you hit rock bottom and have to claw your way back with a 2011 shitbox laptop that attempts to kill itself if you dare to open a second firefox tab or, case in point, VSCode or anything that has been built with Electron.
I learnt vim and neovim out of necessity - because it takes only 30 MB on RAM
So I recently switched to vim as my text editor. And started using vimwiki for notes. But I must know what insanity could one possibly do with a Text editor other than... Well text edit.
Even though I regularly use vim for editing files, so many shortcuts and commands are still unknown. How would one approach this issue without reading the man page? Asking for a friend…
vimtutor is the starting point for learning vim, but it's fairly surface-level. To actually learn vim, you should read through the user manual by typing :help usr_01 and hitting enter in vim. It's also accessible online here: https://vimhelp.org/usr_01.txt.html#usr_01.txt.
It's a fairly quick read, about 40ish pages that are reasonably short and is intended to be read straight through like a book. It provides a good overview of all of vim's features.
Note: this is distinct from the reference manual, which is much, much larger and isn't intended to be read straight through.
I do not agree with your premise. Some editors should be simple and approachable above all. Some should also be super customizable and efficient to use for those who want do dive deep into their editor.
I probably should have specified that I use a GUI IDE for the most part and text editing on the CLI is usually just quick changes to config files on servers and stuff. If you do your main dev work in CLI, respect and yeah you should be using Vim or Emacs with a shitload of customization.
Can't remember key-combinations? You have a list right there.
It's for those who just need the occasional file editing using ssh or sudo.
For anything more, you have vim and you can configure stuff to your liking.
Nothing needs to be added to nano.
As a simple terminal editor with no bells and whistles it works great, I used it a lot at my last job when I had to make a small tweek on a program that was loaded on the "build server".
"Ed is the standard text editor."
Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:
golem> ed
?
help
?
?
?
quit
?
exit
?
bye
?
hello?
?
eat flaming death
?
^C
?
^C
?
^D
?
---
Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is
generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm
the novice with verbosity.
"Ed is the standard text editor."
Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.
ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED
AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS
BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN
SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!
When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless
help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!!
Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor". Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED!
ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!
TEXT EDITOR.
When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their
"edlin" on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely
you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.
Ed is for those who can *remember* what they are working on. If you
are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should
not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE
SO-CALLED "VISUAL" EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE
FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!
Honestly it's kinda true except for Photos and Maps. Everything that is not fundamentally visual by nature can pretty efficiently be done with Vim. It truly excels at manipulating and navigating through text.
It surely can be done... but is it really a good idea? :P
If one were to use e.g. Immich database of tags describing images though then it might make sense, but then it's still indirectly manipulating content.
I have a question: I sadly still use my Gmail for many 'official' purposes and anything I need to pay to (I promise I will delete my Amazon account within the next year or so... especislly since those fuckers dont even let you archive or delete your own purchase history!), but I will need some access to my Gmail account. Anyway I can do this without giving Google everything?
You used the wrong icon. It should be emacs
Yeah, emacs makes way more sense for this one
The only thing emacs is missing is a text editor
That actually made me laugh out loud. Well done
oh man. all the old jokes are new again. shit, am i basically a dad now?
Vi vs EMACS jokes are well within grandpa territory now. Sorry.
I saw that reply and figured I'd just let the whippersnappers enjoy themselves 😅
it's a healthy sign of a community when dad jokes enter the cultural milieu as something that's passed from generation to generation. we inherited these jokes, handed them down, and someday they'll be handed down again
Grandpa, will you tell me the story about the black and orange computer screens please?
Next thing you know people aren't going to know that EMACS stands for Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping. Or why that's funny.
Today I learned
Well, seeing as I'm more than a decade younger than emacs... I guess so?
That's why evil-mode exists
How dare you. I'm sending the church of emacs after your ass.
Free software song starts playing
Surely someone has used the built-in Lisp interpreter to emulate a feature exact
nano.Just open the file in Vim?
C-x M-c M-butterfly
https://xkcd.com/378/
And the only thing preventing us mortals from having such power is the lack of a
butterflykey on our keyboardsyea, emacs even has a doctor
Why do you say that?
M-x doctor
In emacs, ESC then x then type doctor, I remember this from 30 years ago
Is it because you say “I remember this from 30 years ago” that emacs has a doctor?
Is it possible to downvote a comment twice?
Upvote it first.
Genius!
I am a firm believer of (neo)vim being the pinnacle of editing. My workdays start with vim and end with vim. But vim is not the everything app, which the e in emacs probably stands for.
HOWEVER, there are vim plugins for almost everything, which is pretty cool. This point goes to you, emacs rivals. Let's keep it between us and not the vs code or IDE weirdos
Only acceptable in eVil form
Doom Emacs for those who have truly ascended.
Everyone should Doom themselves
Neovim*
nvim
I don't even agree with the meme and I hate this comment.
How the fuck did you beat me to it and get so many up votes so fast
It should be Neovim and Lua. Nobody should be subjected to the curse and torment of writing Elisp.
Sounds like vim is aspiring to be Emacs.
shots fired
You can tell it's legit, because it says Vi.
The war is still ongoing. Many of us never figured out how to quit Vi.
only because once you start using vim, you can't stop. why do you think people make full on operating systems within vim?
because they can't leave.
::: spoiler This will free you
:q!:::I've been stuck in vim for years, and everyone just brings up this ":q!" emoticon to mock me.
rude
You need to press
Escapetwice, first.Then pass on the rudeness to
vim. It will knowI know it's a classic but confused how I'm supposed to use Vim to send an email
Already got my Vim, any tips?
open it, use it. keep using it because you can't close it
Shit, I've been scrubbing the bathroom for 10hours, can't close Vim
Shameless self-promotion
Emacs btw
what sort of honoric is et al, does it make you plural?
no no McS. et al., PhD is mf actual family name. Trying a bit too hard to get a great academic career.
In case you're not being sarcastic, et al is a shortening that means "among others" - usually authors of academic papers are clubbed together like this. In this context it is more like, "among other educational qualifications"
While that does make sense, I think I'll stick to thinking they're plural.
EMACS CURED MY AUTISM!
in only + / - bilions of years!
Emacs!
-> Vim
-> Microsoft edit 1.0 for Linux
Heh, looks like Microsoft employed someone and just let them do whatever they wanted. So they fucked around and made a text editor in Rust. They even have an anime avatar on github. Definitely doesn't smell like a microsoft project but hey.. if a company feeds you, you gotta put their name on your project.
Well I think this has been too much Internet for me today
-> micro
It's a great OS it's just lacking a decent text editor.
I used to spend hours trying to get the image on the right page. Now i use Org-mode LaTeX, and just accept that it's impossible.
🦶
GNOME -> Vim
Can emacs really do all of this?
Probably... so long as Emacs can be used to open up Vim. :-P
Lmao y'all are degenerates.
It probably can somehow
Theres an emacs map plugin, and a webkit browser, and org mode is basically notes + calendar, you can edit and copy remote files with tramp mode. Theres also an emacs plugin for launching steam games.
Emacs comes with a plugin called "doctor" which is a rudimentary text ai from the 90s
One time I wanted to edit a binary file and I found out emacs comes with a hex editor
Man y'all really are trying to get me to try emacs.
Probably. I recently installed a bunch of packages so now I use emacs to check my RSS feeds, look up the current word's definition or synonyms, browse Gopher and Gemini sites, check my email ... I told myself I was doing it just for fun to see how much truth there was to the whole "emacs is a great operating system" joke but I genuinely love how handy it all is and I'm worried I'm going to keep falling in even deeper. A part of me does dislike not using purpose built programs for each of those functions ("do one thing and do it well"), but it's been a fun experiment so far
Huh.
Well godamnit. I gotta check it out now. I'll be right back, I swear
Mom: we have Google Maps at home
Google Maps at home: Vim
vim -> gnu emacs
emacs -> back to vim
vim -> back to emacs
emacs -> neovim
Full enlightenment achieved
neovim -> helix
enlightenment upgraded
edLow key I might need to try helix
No plugins though is kind of a dealbreaker
This feels like a meme a vim user would make about emacs being bloated
This would be more believable with eMacs tbh
Vim is a sorry excuse of Emacs. Which is the editor made in and for the language of God, Lisp
AMSTERDAM TRIP: 52.37952717594758, 4.898731163397595 -> 52.373726213381254, 4.8991743688343785 -> 52.37307624236834, 4.892481840346751 -> 52.375235597713356, 4.883881824117286 -> 52.364346142549444, 4.882779439603186 -> 52.358151346039655, 4.868920785661565 -> 52.36032825423474, 4.885688072103288 -> 52.38899110197864, 4.8381014035210965
Is this navigation?
VI-Maps
This is one of those threads where it is like all of you are just speaking funny(?) gibberish at each other.
That's not gibberish, those are hilarious jokes using sophisticated vim commands. Here's another, which you have no hope of understanding, but vim users will love:
:%s/ass/butt/g"YESS! YESSSSS! GIVE IN TO YOUR EMACS SIDE!!!"
Google Search really sucks these days. I can't find any images of Richard M. Stallman as a Sith lord, even though I'm sure vi fans have made several edits by now. ...It's been a while.
Oops, all vim!
and finally you replace vim with nano
Cast out the unbeliever! Drive them from our light! Let them not pass amongst the true believers lest they lead others astray!
I-i-it's surely okay, as they must have meant neovim, r-r-right?!?!?!?!
Grrrr. Neovim? I question your devotion to the cause of righteousness. Think well upon your choices lest you too be cast out from the light of the glory of the almighty vim!
Alright, I now totally believe that you are not a bot, wink 😉. Only a human could hold so well to the true path of enlightenment.
From a "giving tech support" POV, nano is the best editor. Have you ever tried walking a non-techie through editing a config file on the command line, over the phone, no screen share? Nano is your friend. (I swear, this very expensive software I used to support got its sysadmins by picking whoever was absent the day the the client site figured out someone had to do it.)
This would be funnier if it were emacs since that's the one that has a metric ton of plugins for all of these
Vim too. The difference is that emacs cultivates and promotes its omnitool capabilities, while vim hides its equally omnipotent plugins shamefully in https://www.vim.org/scripts/
Vi(rgi)m hides its shamefully impotent plugins in the face of ChadMacs
This would make more sense with Emacs /ducks
Now I Declare The Start of The Holy EDITOR WAR!!!!
NGL this was my first thought, and I don't even use Emacs!
M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead
One night there was a storm, and Master Wq’s house collapsed. The next morning he began to build it again using his old tools. His novice came to help him, and they built for a while and were making good progress. As they worked, the novice began to tell Master Wq of his latest accomplishments.
“Master, I have developed a wonderful Vim script to give all sorts of useful information about a document. It counts the words, the sentences, the paragraphs, and even tells you what kind of document it is using the syntax highlighting rules. I use it in my pipelines all the time. It is a thing of beauty, and I am very proud. Truly, Vim is the greatest tool!”
Master Wq did not reply. Thinking he had unwittingly angered his master, the novice fell silent and continued his work.
The novice finished aligning two beams and had positioned a nail ready for beating into the wood, but found the hammer was out of reach.
“Would you pass me the hammer, master?”
Master Wq handed the novice a saw.
At once, the novice was enlightened.
https://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/vim-koans/
I much prefer handwriting in shorthand, scanning it in, running it through OCR, and cat to a file.
I sure hope you do Not use a non patched Xerox Workstation for it.....
Explanation: They had a bug a few years ago where the scanners would alter numbers due to their compression algorithm.
https://xkcd.com/378/
Of course theres a relevant XKCD
real G's use
edIt's standard for a reason.
You know what else is standard?
strcmpin C with user input.If you know you know.
But I don't need an editor, do you see an editor somewhere in the infographics? Thought so.
If you use Vim you'll never use any other software
I would respond.. but I can’t figure out how to exit Vim
<badumtss.gif>
That silly program can't trick me! I used Vim last year and I'm totally able to use other programs!
...I just have to use Vim also at all times!
As long as they have a plugin for vim shortcuts. I don't know how many :w I left strewn over my documents at work.
The problem with using Vim is that you have to learn Vim, but early in my career I was in single-ecosystem shops that all used IDE's for whatever tech (Microsoft= Visual Studio, Java = Eclipse / NetBeans, PHP = Sublime Text, arguably not an IDE)
By the time I got to the point in my career where I got to choose the tooling, VSCode was already a thing and it has an extension for anything you can think of.
So I never had to learn Vim, and now it's in the too-hard basket, and VSCode is ubiquitous and works surprisingly well
You might change your mind when you hit rock bottom and have to claw your way back with a 2011 shitbox laptop that attempts to kill itself if you dare to open a second firefox tab or, case in point, VSCode or anything that has been built with Electron.
I learnt vim and neovim out of necessity - because it takes only 30 MB on RAM
So I recently switched to vim as my text editor. And started using vimwiki for notes. But I must know what insanity could one possibly do with a Text editor other than... Well text edit.
Pro tip for new VIM users: it's "Q".
:q to be exact
And don't forget to press
EnterWhy Chatgpt and not Gemini? Also why no vpn? You could have put VPN by Google
You surely mean Emacs, no?
He tried to, but couldn't enter edit mode to type it out
Even though I regularly use vim for editing files, so many shortcuts and commands are still unknown. How would one approach this issue without reading the man page? Asking for a friend…
$ vimtutor
At first I thought you were joking. But that is actually a command. I’m surprised. Thanks!
No worries. I've been using vim for years and still don't use anything fancier than marks and regex editing. 😄
vimtutoris the starting point for learning vim, but it's fairly surface-level. To actually learn vim, you should read through the user manual by typing:help usr_01and hitting enter in vim. It's also accessible online here: https://vimhelp.org/usr_01.txt.html#usr_01.txt.It's a fairly quick read, about 40ish pages that are reasonably short and is intended to be read straight through like a book. It provides a good overview of all of vim's features.
Note: this is distinct from the reference manual, which is much, much larger and isn't intended to be read straight through.
This was very helpful. Thank you for taking some time to share!
It depends on your distro. It could be
sudo apt install emacsorsudo dnf install emacsorsudo pacman -S emacs, etc.Do I look like a toddler to you? I use le
emerge💅Vim -> Emacs
You'd have to know how to exit Vim to do that though
My nemisis, we meet again!
Please! no more editor wars, just use
ed! And if you need the fancy modern features, you can always use notepad.Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all, is the standard text editor
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
Vim -> Helix
You misspelled Emacs
Text editors should be simple and approachable above all. Nano is undeniably the best by this definition.
I do not agree with your premise. Some editors should be simple and approachable above all. Some should also be super customizable and efficient to use for those who want do dive deep into their editor.
I probably should have specified that I use a GUI IDE for the most part and text editing on the CLI is usually just quick changes to config files on servers and stuff. If you do your main dev work in CLI, respect and yeah you should be using Vim or Emacs with a shitload of customization.
it feels like it was made quickly after people complained about vim or emacs bein too hard and then just minimally maintained
It's good enough for the requirement.
Can't remember key-combinations? You have a list right there.
It's for those who just need the occasional file editing using
sshorsudo.For anything more, you have
vimand you can configure stuff to your liking. Nothing needs to be added tonano.Why? I'd say they should edit text well above all.
If i need more than Nano has to offer, I'd much rather use a GUI editor like Kate though.
Or you could use a console-friendly editor like Emacs, then when you wanted a GUI-friendly editor you could switch to Emacs.
As a simple terminal editor with no bells and whistles it works great, I used it a lot at my last job when I had to make a small tweek on a program that was loaded on the "build server".
It's simple, easy to use, and doesn"t fight you.
For simple edits to single text files nano has to be my most used editor. Vim is a close second though.
For editing code, I've used just about everything for one reason or another but it's usually just my IDE with the directory open.
listen here, you little shit
How do I get off Google voice?
::: spoiler Guess what? :) Vim :::
:wq!
Honestly it's kinda true except for Photos and Maps. Everything that is not fundamentally visual by nature can pretty efficiently be done with Vim. It truly excels at manipulating and navigating through text.
I'm not shure whether vim is not capable of handling photos — I never tried this plugin: https://github.com/ashisha/image.vim
Edit: it's 10 years old and uses python2 and PIL, so it needs a bit dusting off, but with a bit of caring love, it should be able to run again.
It surely can be done... but is it really a good idea? :P
If one were to use e.g. Immich database of tags describing images though then it might make sense, but then it's still indirectly manipulating content.
Vim -> Emacs
I wish
Gotta run vim under emacs eshell
Perfection
You have invented "emacs -nw"
I have a question: I sadly still use my Gmail for many 'official' purposes and anything I need to pay to (I promise I will delete my Amazon account within the next year or so... especislly since those fuckers dont even let you archive or delete your own purchase history!), but I will need some access to my Gmail account. Anyway I can do this without giving Google everything?
I'm more of an Ajax guy.
Changed my life!!!!
also replaced android with minimal Linux running with Busybox + Vim /j
Just gonna leave this here:
n
I mean I use vim from time to time but this seems more appropriate for emacs
https://youtu.be/urcL86UpqZc