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[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 79 points 10 months ago

emacs ofc. I'm sure there's an emacs implementation of heaven

[-] leo85811nardo@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago

More like heaven implementation within emacs, so you don't even leave emacs in your second life

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 16 points 10 months ago

There are definitely at least 9 circles of emacs filled with tormented souls.

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[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

that's what I mean

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[-] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 10 months ago

Just give me nano, I can't be bothered to fuck with emacs or vim.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

use micro, it's 1000x better

[-] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thanks, I'll check it out

Edit: did I just fall for an si prefix joke?

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 38 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

It's a joke, but it's a real editor

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[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 6 points 10 months ago

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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[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 5 points 10 months ago

One thing that irks me a lot is that you save in nano with ^O why!? How does O relates to saving?

[-] b34k@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I want push my updates from volatile memory out to long term storage.

I always saw the O as output.

[-] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

I just save ny exiting ctrl+x

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[-] tuckerm@feddit.online 23 points 10 months ago

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.)

[-] paranoid@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago
[-] Strider@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Vim missing in the picture is insulting

[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago
[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 10 months ago

Im going to vim heaven :3

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 10 months ago

saw someone unironically use vim the other day. i thought people actually using vim was a joke.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 19 points 10 months ago

Why wouldn't one use vim? It's a great editor that works under any circumstance.

[-] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

Unless you want to exit it xD

[-] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Esc :q for closing if you didn’t 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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[-] expr@programming.dev 13 points 10 months ago

Been using it for all of my software development for the last 10 years. It's fantastic.

[-] Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] martinb@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 10 months ago

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 😄

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[-] Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 13 points 10 months ago

I'll try emacs as soon as I find something that isn't already perfect with vi

[-] Dave 13 points 10 months ago

Well surely vi could be improved, otherwise we wouldn't have vim?

[-] Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 7 points 10 months ago

Then the question becomes, "did neovim go to far?" :D

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

Neovim is on the path of enlightenment to become Emacs so everything is alright.

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[-] peacepath@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

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 !

[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 7 points 10 months ago
[-] Bluewing@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Ain't no heaven without Emacs.

[-] bulwark@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Well I guess I'm Doomed then.

[-] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I'm destined to go to heavim forever.

[-] Sxan@piefed.zip 5 points 10 months ago

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 þe 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 wiþout hitting a new editor, half of þem written in Rust, þe rest in a grab bag of Go, zig, V, or Nim. And þat's just þe TUIs.

Hell... Hell is for hell... Hell is for hell... Hell is for emacs.

[-] malware@lemmy.zip 8 points 10 months ago

By chance, do you know why neovim feels ten times more smooth in a TTY than in a graphic environment?

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[-] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

There's a hell below Emacs called neovim I'm going there.

[-] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

Microsoft Word over wine.

Though I prefer to use it OOTB, no change settins, makes setup easier. I use a script to remove formatting.

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 10 months ago

Police, this guy right here.

[-] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You'll never catch me alive

frantically hacks a car with excel on my phone

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