Anyone who finds fault with this list = Skill issue.
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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
Mom: we have Google Maps at home
Google Maps at home: Vim
For those who haven’t seen this amazing interview:
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
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
I much prefer handwriting in shorthand, scanning it in, running it through OCR, and cat to a file.
I sure hope you do Not use a non patched Xerox Workstation for it…
Explanation: They had a bug a few years ago where the scanners would alter numbers due to their compression algorithm.
Oops, all vim!
This would make more sense with Emacs /ducks
Now I Declare The Start of The Holy EDITOR WAR!!!
NGL this was my first thought, and I don’t even use Emacs!
M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead
Of course theres a relevant XKCD
You surely mean Emacs, no?
He tried to, but couldn’t enter edit mode to type it out
If you use Vim you’ll never use any other software
I would respond… but I can’t figure out how to exit Vim
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That silly program can’t trick me! I used Vim last year and I’m totally able to use other programs!
…I just have to use Vim also at all times!
As long as they have a plugin for vim shortcuts. I don’t know how many :w I left strewn over my documents at work.
The problem with using Vim is that you have to learn Vim, but early in my career I was in single-ecosystem shops that all used IDE’s for whatever tech (Microsoft= Visual Studio, Java = Eclipse / NetBeans, PHP = Sublime Text, arguably not an IDE)
By the time I got to the point in my career where I got to choose the tooling, VSCode was already a thing and it has an extension for anything you can think of.
So I never had to learn Vim, and now it’s in the too-hard basket, and VSCode is ubiquitous and works surprisingly well
You might change your mind when you hit rock bottom and have to claw your way back with a 2011 shitbox laptop that attempts to kill itself if you dare to open a second firefox tab or, case in point, VSCode or anything that has been built with Electron.
I learnt vim and neovim out of necessity - because it takes only 30 MB on RAM
One night there was a storm, and Master Wq’s house collapsed. The next morning he began to build it again using his old tools. His novice came to help him, and they built for a while and were making good progress. As they worked, the novice began to tell Master Wq of his latest accomplishments.
“Master, I have developed a wonderful Vim script to give all sorts of useful information about a document. It counts the words, the sentences, the paragraphs, and even tells you what kind of document it is using the syntax highlighting rules. I use it in my pipelines all the time. It is a thing of beauty, and I am very proud. Truly, Vim is the greatest tool!”
Master Wq did not reply. Thinking he had unwittingly angered his master, the novice fell silent and continued his work.
The novice finished aligning two beams and had positioned a nail ready for beating into the wood, but found the hammer was out of reach.
“Would you pass me the hammer, master?”
Master Wq handed the novice a saw.
At once, the novice was enlightened.
