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> I know several world class programmers, and interestingly, the commonality among them is that they all seem to use Vim as their code editor. Many people I kno
by notnmeyer 3y ago
> I know several world class programmers, and interestingly, the commonality among them is that they all seem to use Vim as their code editor. Many people I know who think of themselves as world class programmers use Emacs.
haha, shots fired!
- doctor_eval 3y agoRight? The greats all used ed.
- gkhartman 3y agoNah, programmers of that caliber will use a magnetized needle directly on the hard disk platters.
- antiframe 3y agoI see where you're going with this, so let's just shortcut ourselves to the end: the Emacs command `M-x butterfly`.
- overtomanu 3y agofor those who don't know -> https://xkcd.com/378/ https://xkcd.com/378/
- rtpg 3y agoEvil mode giving you Vim macros, combined with Elisp as a real programming language.... ooh now that's some fun IDE a la carte-ing
- umvi 3y agoAnd then you have Linus Torvalds who uses nano
- I_like_pigeons 3y agoI thought he used his own fork of a micro emacs?
- umvi 3y agoAh, yes, my mistake, he was only thinking of switching to nano: > And it's all done in a traditional terminal, although I don't use 'vi'. I use this abomination called "micro-emacs", which has absolutely nothing to do with GNU emacs except that some of the key bindings are similar. I got used to it at the University of Helsinki when I was a wee lad, and I've not been able to wean myself from it, although I suspect I will have to soon enough. I hacked up (a very limited) utf-8 support for it a few years ago, but it's really showing its age, and showing all the signs of having been written in the 80's and the version I use was a fork that hasn't been maintained since the mid 90's. > University of Helsinki used it because it worked on DOS, VAX/VMS and Unix, which is why I got introduced to it. And now my fingers are hardcoded for it. I really need to switch over to something that is actually maintained and does utf-8 properly. Probably 'nano'. But my hacked-up piece of historical garbage works just barely well enough that I've never been really forced to teach my old fingers new tricks. https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds-linux-and-git https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds...
- logicprog 3y agoConsidering how confidently utterly wrong the author of this article seems to be about Vim and to an even more substantial degree Emacs, I'm not inclined to put much stock in this as an insight.