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I used to use visual studio and I think I maybe also learned some very basic vim (arrow keys, i, dd, p, :wq) to do some remote sysadmin type things. I wanted to
by dan-robertson 4y ago
I used to use visual studio and I think I maybe also learned some very basic vim (arrow keys, i, dd, p, :wq) to do some remote sysadmin type things. I wanted to learn Common Lisp which, at the time, meant having to learn Emacs too. And then I was more interested in things outside of windows and Emacs stuck. (Also the calculator in it is amazing).
Funnily, I also work for a company where many people use Emacs (it was the only editor with good support for our tools for a long time – you can even order lunch from it – new hires were encouraged to use it, even non-software engineers when they needed to interact with the Linux side of things) which I think is pretty uncommon. There was definitely a time 10 years or so ago when vim seemed to have massive popularity online and everything else seemed to fly under the radar.
- nequo 4y ago> There was definitely a time 10 years or so ago when vim seemed to have massive popularity online and everything else seemed to fly under the radar. The popularity of vim frankly surprises me. Vim is 1970s to its bones, with nothing to suggest that it’d be picked up so widely. (Saying this as a vim user of about two decades who has only been able to switch to Emacs thanks to evil mode.)
- adchari 4y agoJane Street?