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    [–] sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

    Im going to spacemacs

    [–] kreskin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

    This is what happens whens when rich nerds get too much money.

    I'm destined to go to heavim forever.

    [–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 73 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

    [–] leo85811nardo@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

    [–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

    that's what I mean

    [–] NaibofTabr 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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    [–] Fontasia@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago

    Everyone would live edit in nano if they weren't cowards

    oh but it doesn't have macros

    You will use your $1000 keyboard and you will like it

    [–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 2 days ago (7 children)

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

    [–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (6 children)

    use micro, it's 1000x better

    [–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

    Thanks, I'll check it out

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

    [–] palordrolap@fedia.io 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    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.

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    [–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

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

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    [–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    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 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Police, this guy right here.

    [–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    You'll never catch me alive

    frantically hacks a car with excel on my phone

    [–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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

    [–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 20 points 2 days ago (16 children)

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

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    [–] expr@programming.dev 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

    [–] Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days 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 7 points 2 days ago (14 children)

    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 πŸ˜„

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    [–] paranoid@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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    [–] tuckerm@feddit.online 22 points 2 days 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.)

    Im going to vim heaven :3

    [–] udc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

    I'm a neovim convert

    [–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

    Ain't no heaven without Emacs.

    [–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    What the hell is an EMACS?

    [–] seggturkasz@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    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! ;)

    wait, what if you're at end stage emacs but you've never used the damn thing

    [–] FEIN@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

    this deserves a literary award and a spot on everyone's bookshelf

    [–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago

    Kate & Micro >:3

    [–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

    heaven because i use vim

    [–] callyral@pawb.social 4 points 2 days ago

    I have Neovim, Helix and Emacs installed on my system...

    [–] sol6_vi@lemmy.makearmy.io 1 points 1 day ago

    Emacs is fucking awesome but I won't get anything done once I fall in. I get more done in Vim.

    [–] Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

    [–] Dave@lemmy.nz 12 points 2 days ago (6 children)

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

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    [–] peacepath@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days 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 !

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