Post A9SZM5bI0W5f4v5Bbs by joerebelloharley@tilde.zone
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(DIR) Post #A9SZM5bI0W5f4v5Bbs by joerebelloharley@tilde.zone
2021-07-19T20:58:03Z
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RIght I'm going on a fucking text editor rant again.For god's sake, I cannot STAND the people who religiously insist on using Emacs and Vi, and then seem to think that they are masters of the known computing universe just for using it.Sure, I like simplistic editors as much as the next guy, but if we're talking, I don't know, several hours minimum to understand the bloody fucking key bindings then goodnight vienna my frined!In general, people can use what they want, I don't give a shit, but it's forcing it on me that pisses me off; you'll be sitting writing some code and then some dude will come up to you from the side of the room and then if it takes you more than 3 seconds to do something, with a keyboard or (god forbid) a mouse, they'll go: 'Oh yeah I could do this way quicker in Emacs with the key bindings' or 'there's a Vim command for that...'NO SHIT SHERLOCK! Sorry to break it to you but your key bindings take ages to learn, give you RSI, and then all your packages are written in Lisp! The most annoying language of them all! Not even C++ is that bad (bold statement I know).And you, Vim power user, your directional keys haven't changed since, oh I don't know, the 1970s! AND: Your editor requires COMMANDS to use!So what do you use? I hear you ask, well...1.) Atom2.) JOE3.) VSCode4.) THE5.) MS-DOS Editor (got to hand it to MS, that thing was a thing of beauty, simple, easy to learn, didn't take up too much space, well integrated; was maybe a little slow but who cares)AMENDMENT: I wrote this at night, and literally do not remember writing it, I am publishing it purely for comedic effect, I was overzealous when writing this, hopefully it doesn't truly offend anyone.
(DIR) Post #A9Sbpe5F4wfQKeJX0K by seven@pl.panthermoderns.org
2021-07-19T22:27:30.430423Z
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@joerebelloharley To be fair Atom is total shit… ;) lolzIn all seriousness though whatever you can use to make you productive is legitimate and anyone who tells you different just wants another person on their “editor church pew”. (Except in the case of atom, I mean… seriously, I’m not sure they ever made an editor that used more resources for as little reward, but I’m certain it failed, as it should have… It’s text, 3.5g of ram is beyond stupid. O_O) lolz
(DIR) Post #A9SgKcKs1k9HhkeEeO by zudlig@expired.mentality.rip
2021-07-19T22:59:51.085184Z
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@joerebelloharley vi doesn't take hours to learn, it takes weeks. If it was invented today it'd never catch on, which for however much humanity has advanced since the 1970s is a sign of something we've lost. We no longer have the situation in which it's possible to invent such things. It's an elegant editor from a more text-based age.
(DIR) Post #A9U0GJjnQNWB6hUflw by joerebelloharley@tilde.zone
2021-07-20T08:53:54Z
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@zudlig I’m not saying Vi is bad, I’m just saying in bad in a world where we have arrow keys, WM and DEs on almost everything, and the disc space to go bigger.However, in the context of early personal computers and 1970s UNIX mainframes with more obsolete terminals, it’s perfect.
(DIR) Post #A9U0GKBnkFv4VYb2QK by zudlig@expired.mentality.rip
2021-07-20T14:08:30.829456Z
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@joerebelloharley Modern variants have improved somewhat since the 1970s. Vim can of course recognize the arrow keys. Most users would not bother ever touching them. Aside from the more convenient hjkl, there are a dozen other ways to move the cursor instantly to where you want it in most situations by pressing keys such as fFG;%[]0$/nNm' and so on.If you don't find it worth investing the time to learn that's probably a reasonable choice, and I can relate because I feel the same way about emacs. But that does not make it 'bad' or in any way unsuited to the needs of its users.