#emacs

[guix-official]

[virapyon]

This is actually funny.

[kernelbroken]

[daemonhxckergrrl]

Emacs is what happens when notepad is also chrome is also explorer is also steam is also gmail is also a newspaper is also a 60s mainframe is also....

....and loves to give you RSI

[wasznu]

Finally got my EMACS init file the way I liked

[emacs-unofficial]

From where I post

[piratesexmachine420]

Other people have made this joke already right

[500feetaway]

Thinking about the pretty eMac at my old school unghhh. I wanted him so bad I still miss him. Tempted to beg a friend to get him for me… yearning…

[aqwult]

[nixcraft]

[linux-opinions]

"Linux users love to argue arcane semantics" swear to god for a second I thought that was a joke about the league of legends show.

Can you at least share your superior editor preference, or point me in the direction where I might find it?

real talk? vim and emacs both have a prohibitively excessive learning curve and are to text editing as gentoo is to distros: fascinating, cool, and people can do some amazing things with it, but expecting most people to get on board is a waste of energy.

personally i don't have just one editor. i use micro for basic/light edits (i like micro a lot. its simple but does a little more out of the box than nano and its config feels sane to me), zed for coding (this is NOT an endorsement, zed keeps Pissing Me Off, I just don't want to go back to vscodium), and im proficient enough in nano and basic vim to do what I need to on a system where I don't have micro.

im currently writing my own markdown/wiki/zettlekasten note editor to replace obsidian for my fiction writing, and for work im forced to use whatever Microsoft trash is on my locked down HP elitebook 🤡, but none of that is very intensive or technical.

all that said - im not a huge fan of my current situation, especially in regards to coding.

im stuck between wanting to play with the big kids (using emacs/vim and having a Cool and also Tricked Out config), not wanting to learn the default keybinds (im not deluded enough to think that i, a certified fucking clown, would be any faster/better at editing with them) and not wanting to learn lisp/lua/vimscript enough to bend the keybinds into a shape I feel I can actually understand (lisp in particular makes less than 0 sense to me because it's so different from typical languages im used to).

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

One of the most Internet things, known since the early days of the millennium, is the tendency for some people to read a public request for something with specific and inflexible criteria, and respond with a recommendation which fits exactly none of the requirements, just because the responder likes the thing they're recommending.

I mean obviously this is a people-in-general thing, but like ... y'know? Before the internet, you didn't have Widespread Access To Large Numbers Of People. Now, people who want advice get exposed to enough people at once that it becomes statistically fairly likely that if (for example, based on a true story) you request recommendations for a notetaking app which can synchronize between your desktop computer and your phone and which will notify you at specified times as a reminder for todo lists, then someone will show up in the comments who suggests EMACS. The stated justification was that it might be theoretically possible to get EMACS to do one or more of those things using hypothetical modifications or add-ons, but like c'mon, you clearly don't care about the actual stated requirements, you just really want to recommend EMACS right this minute.

[mirqmarq428]

VIM author Bram Moolenar has died.

Moolenar has been developing the vim text editor for 20 years and encouraged users to donate to children in Uganda. He was a living legend, and will remain a legend as long as programming itself exists.

Rest in peace king.

[kernelbroken]

[daemonhxckergrrl]

looking into ide-ifying emacs and aside from autocomplete, signatures and goto definition, i just..don't care lmao