A brief guide to Unix editors:
- vi is a trap
- vim is Stockholm syndrome with keybindings
- neovim is a lifestyle brand
- emacs is a religion
- nano is a cry for help
- micro is nano with imposter syndrome
- helix is TikTok vim
- kakoune is vim for people who hate vim
silverwizard
in reply to muesli • • •Ben Zanin
in reply to silverwizard • • •silverwizard
in reply to Ben Zanin • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to silverwizard • •@silverwizard @muesli you've just successfully made me install edbrowse
I'm not sure I'll have time to go though the configuration file with ed this morning :(
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silverwizard
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to silverwizard • •@silverwizard @muesli XMPP. patch.
omg.
silverwizard
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Thomas Fuchs
in reply to muesli • • •Brooke Vibber
in reply to Thomas Fuchs • • •Thomas Fuchs
in reply to Brooke Vibber • • •TheConstructor (he/him)
in reply to Brooke Vibber • • •Jonathan
in reply to muesli • • •Mans R
in reply to Jonathan • • •muesli
in reply to Jonathan • • •@jonbro
cat > foo.bar
Wolf480pl
in reply to muesli • • •ah yes, busybox's builtin editor
Jasper 🍉
in reply to muesli • • •@jonbro
Fritz Adalis
in reply to Jonathan • • •mg(1)
paul
in reply to muesli • • •Weird Socks
in reply to paul • • •I sniff a possible CSUA alum.
Oscoder
in reply to muesli • • •Wolf480pl
in reply to muesli • • •Tobias
in reply to muesli • • •lj·rk
in reply to muesli • • •I had them all! My journey (so far)
nano -> vim -> kakoune -> micro -> helix -> emacs (evil) -> helix -> neovim -> vi
Carlos Solís
in reply to lj·rk • • •Idaho buckeye
in reply to muesli • • •Huubje
in reply to Idaho buckeye • • •Carlos Solís
in reply to muesli • • •aCiReP
in reply to muesli • • •Daniel Terhorst-North
in reply to muesli • • •close! I would say:
- kakoune is vim for people who hate vim
- helix is vim for people who love vim and wish it worked
Elric
in reply to Daniel Terhorst-North • • •Maya Granade
in reply to muesli • • •Parade du Grotesque 💀
in reply to muesli • • •100% accurate.
Elvis has left the building.
Nuclear Oatmeal
in reply to muesli • • •Jens Finkhäuser
in reply to Nuclear Oatmeal • • •@NuclearOatmeal That's right.
cat >file <<EOF
Text
EOF
That's how real men edit (or women, or small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri,...).
f00df4ce
in reply to muesli • • •We're doing JUST FINE and everything is GREAT here okay?!
...
please help i live in a cave
Asko Nõmm
in reply to muesli • • •Jan Antoš
in reply to Asko Nõmm • • •Digital Mark λ ☕️ 8647
in reply to muesli • • •#ed
Slackbear
in reply to muesli • • •an actual bus
in reply to muesli • • •Owl Eyes
in reply to muesli • • •Jürgen
in reply to muesli • • •xeroxed
in reply to muesli • • •echarlie
in reply to muesli • • •bpl
in reply to muesli • • •Gurre Vildskägg
in reply to muesli • • •Stockholm is the best!
Weird Socks
in reply to muesli • • •ThierryStoehr
in reply to muesli • • •🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦
in reply to muesli • • •The Orange Theme
in reply to muesli • • •JungYulKim Dotcom Free Press
in reply to muesli • • •Garrett Wollman
in reply to muesli • • •Why would there be a need for "vim for people who hate vim" when the real thing ((n)vi) is right there?
Signed,
alias vi=nvi
MightyBigCar
in reply to muesli • • •vi is my fallback when a GUI isn't convenient*, and it's far better than teco or ex.
* Mainly because I memorized about 12 useful vi commands back in the Triassic, and couldn't be bothered to learn anything else.
saucerlost
in reply to muesli • • •I just run notepad.exe through Wine
....that was a joke, stop hitting me
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to saucerlost • •@saucerlost @muesli why should anybody be hitting you, when you're already punishing yourself?
unless that's part of a kink scene you've negotiated with the people involved, of course, then go you!
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Come On Giant Asteroid!
in reply to muesli • • •Nano is a port of pico which died slowly as people moved away from PINE, the greatest MUA in history.
But vi is still better … and you could configure PINE to use vi as your primary *or* alternate editor …
Jens Finkhäuser
in reply to Come On Giant Asteroid! • • •Come On Giant Asteroid!
in reply to Jens Finkhäuser • • •PINE started out very basic, but after 5-6 years there was a lot of good stuff buried in the “advanced” config menu or whatever it was called. Sadly haven’t used it in prolly 20 years …
Kazriko
in reply to muesli • • •I guess I use Tiktok vim, even though I hate TikTok. Helix is just a lot faster than vim once I got used to it.
Surprised no mention of pico, since that's what nano is cloning.
fsan
in reply to muesli • • •