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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (30 children)

emacs

I actually don't know what emacs means. I only remember having struggles in understanding anyone who likes vim, because it mostly just confused me. But Probably its just what you are used to. The Meme is still funny, though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

What's even more crazy is when you've used vim exclusively for 30 years to the point where you sit down at someone else's computer and you try to use their editor and you are completely lost. You fumble around like you're an elderly person who doesn't know what a computer is, type random letters all over. You look senile.

But then you show them on your computer how you can record a macro of your key commands and then use a regex to match different blocks of similar text and apply the same commands all at once. And because you used navigation based on words and lines rather than characters it all just works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I think that's true of all editors, though. I ended up on the intellij side of things, and it means I'm clueless about VSCode's key patterns. I've only picked up ctrl-p so far, and keep having to remind myself "this is shift-shift in Microsoft"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

VSCode is what made me finally switch away from vim for anything but minor edits. It's just too good.

I did set up vim keybindings in it, though.

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