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[–] teft@piefed.social 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

vim is all i need and is all i’ll ever need.

[–] LorIps@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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"

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You can't spare 8 meg? I have games that want 8 gig

[–] LorIps@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I have 16 Megs of RAM. I'm not going to waste 50% of it on a damn text editor.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But what if you don't get it?

Ed. /s

(Except actually I guess that could happen)

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

vim is for people who want to see the file they are editing