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Sources say the decision was made by how long interns spent in each editor. In fact, it appears the vim users simply never exited once they opened the program, presumably because they found it so productive.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 8 months ago (4 children)

We need to set aside our petty differences and fight the true enemy: bloated IDEs.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

ed is the standard editor.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Bah, a magnetised needle and a steady hand is the one true way to edit code on your prod system.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Excuse me, but real programmers use butterflies.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Hah, still relying on butterflies? Real programmers simply use the starting conditions of the universe to understand where their program will spontaneously compile

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I used to have my local environment synced to prod. Saving meant deployed.

Everything was feature flagged by default, we never broke production in years. That was early 2010s.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

That’s non standard though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You shouldn't let your Visual ideas be Eclipsed, by something Sublime...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Such an IntelliJent comment.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

return to your roots: use notepad

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Emacs was the first bloated IDE!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

And between the two of them, a thin line of evil-mode users who claim allegiance to both sides.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

And are accepted by neither!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

A thin line? Is there an Emacs distro that doesn't default to evil?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Waiting for an executive order on vim vs neovim.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is what kicks off the second Civil War in the United States. And just the like first time, those treasonous Emacs Confederates will be decisively defeated.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Begone, spawn of evil!

Allow the light of Church of Emacs into your heart!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

White House are not Emacs guys!? That's not surprising. They believe in 'you can't change the program, but the program changes you'.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Finally, a president I can get behind.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Vim is like the Hotel California.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

On (classic) rock stations so much when I was a kid that it makes me want to stab myself in the ears?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Full of prostitutes and heroin addicts?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

@[email protected] I know exactly one vi command. :q!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I think the guideline should be: future software should be written on a whim

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Obligatory: how to exit vim

vim > emacs, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

nano >>>>>>> everything else

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

As a vim user, seems emacs is the more difficult one to quit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I tell myself I can quit vim, but somehow I keep going back to it...

Emacs just starts too slowly. Helps to break the dopamine cycle.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

He's got my vote

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Front end dev here. SublimeText all day eryday.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I just switched from Sublime Text to VSCode, so far so good