Anyone who finds fault with this list = Skill issue.
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
The only thing emacs is missing is a text editor
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
And the only thing preventing us mortals from having such power is the lack of a
butterflykey on our keyboards
Is it possible to downvote a comment twice?
Upvote it first.
Genius!
yea, 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?
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
Neovim*
nvim
Only acceptable in eVil form
Doom Emacs for those who have truly ascended.
Everyone should Doom themselves
I don’t even agree with the meme and I hate this comment.
It should be Neovim and Lua. Nobody should be subjected to the curse and torment of writing Elisp.
How the fuck did you beat me to it and get so many up votes so fast
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.
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 tovim. It will know
I 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
Emacs!
-> Vim
-> nano
-> 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.
Wait what oh gods no
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
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!
For those who haven’t seen this amazing interview:
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
eda Ascended .Low 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
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 usingsshorsudo.
For anything more, you havevimand you can configure stuff to your liking. Nothing needs to be added tonano.
Text editors should be simple and approachable above all.
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.
I’ve been daily driving nano for years, I wish it was less of an afterthought when people debate text editors.
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.
"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!!!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.
Most powerful “text editor” you can imagine inside a command line interface. It has unlimited super wild keyboard shortcuts and people on the internet make fun about it, that the only way to exit vim is by turning off the machine, because they don’t know the shortcut.
Vim is a sorry excuse of Emacs. Which is the editor made in and for the language of God, Lisp
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
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
“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.
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.)
