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I never got into the eMacs cult. Been always a vim/vi guy. To me, using eMacs is like people in the cult of lisp: “Why isn’t lisp running the world?” (While t
by eric4smith 4y ago
I never got into the eMacs cult.
Been always a vim/vi guy.
To me, using eMacs is like people in the cult of lisp: “Why isn’t lisp running the world?” (While the code in Java 8 every day)
I get it, a few friends of mine actually use eMacs and we remain friends.
But bruh, I’m a CLI guy and I like Vim. It’s literally everywhere.
Even on my all powerful Mac M1 laptop I still use Vim. No not Mac vim, not Visual Code, not NeoVim or some other bastardized version of Vim.
Just Vim. Or vi.
And my .vimrc is on all the computers and servers I use. No plugins.
To each his own. Right?
- kramerger 4y agoThis is like a Scientologist criticizing Jehovahs Witness :) Okay, since this is HN and not Reddit let me make this post a bit more useful: has anyone tried "mg"? It is an openbsd (?) project that is similar to Emacs on a first glance but even lighter than barebone vim. It is what I use for remote editing instead of vi and nano. https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/mg.1 https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/mg.1
- Koshkin 4y agoHow does mg compare with MicroEMACS (famously used by Linus Torvalds [1])? [1] https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds-linux-and-git https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds...
- nequo 4y agoIs it a very different experience from `emacs -nw -Q`?
- Rediscover 4y agomg(1) user here, fwiw. I install it on VMs/containers. I find it quite nice, though I also use GNU Emacs, vi (often elvis), and Vim. Nano drives me up the wall.
- michaelcampbell 4y ago> eMacs "emacs"
- dan-g 4y agoiOS auto-corrects Emacs to eMacs, probably because of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMac https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMac (Fond memories of that computer!)
- Narishma 4y agoWhy are you comparing a text editor with a computer?