12mo ago

EDitor wars

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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?
emacs is not that hard. You can learn emacs in one day—every day.
- 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.
  
  I'm very partial to doom emacs. I love the emacs ecosystem but the default editor made me want to cry, doom emacs gives the awesome text editing of vim with the awesome ecosystem of emacs (significantly smoother than viper too)
I mean, it is old. Can't blame it.
Ed is the standard text editor.
- They don't call it a viitor or an emacsitor. It's an EDitor!
- This is correct.
- Simple and gets the job done. ~~How do you exit it though?~~
  
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- What about ed?
- If you like Unixy editors, highly recommend also looking into acme
  Russ Cox describes it in this video as more like an "integrating development environment" as in it works with your surrounding operating system rather than an "integrated development environment"
  Doesn't shine as much on Unix as in Plan 9 though. Also no linter or formatter built into or distributed with acme but you probably could get your language's usual tools to work pretty well with it
- 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.
/usr/bin/joe mama
Y NOT NANO THO? /s
Just use duckduckgo.com and everyone will be happy.
I meant vim, but no hard feelings.

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