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My vim muscle memory has paid off more for me than my emacs muscle memory. Emacs was the better editor, though. Anything that doesn't have Vimscript is an autom
by parasti 6mo ago
My vim muscle memory has paid off more for me than my emacs muscle memory. Emacs was the better editor, though. Anything that doesn't have Vimscript is an automatic winner IMO.
- kstrauser 6mo agoI use ^a to go to the beginning of a line and ^e to go to the end nearly everywhere. Many Emacs keystrokes are so pervasive that they're not often thought of as Emacs keystrokes.
- happysadpanda2 5mo agoAren't they actually readline keystrokes, and emacs is "readline-aware"?
- bandrami 5mo agoI'm pretty sure the navigation shortcuts date back to when Emacs was literally just a set of TECO macros, and GNU Readline adopted them
- kstrauser 5mo agoYep. Readline’s modeled after what Emacs was already doing.
- anitil 5mo agoStrangely enough I tried using vi mode for readline and hated it even though I use them constantly in vim. I just hated having to switch modes on my terminal
- kqr 6mo agoEvil is a tried-and-true Vim implementation that doesn't use Vimscript!
- jb1991 5mo agoThe thing about emacs and muscle memory is that all of the standard emacs keyboard shortcuts are also the standard all throughout the Mac operating system, so when you’re writing in text boxes in a webpage, writing in a Google doc, anywhere you type, throughout macOS, it’s emacs shortcuts. That has a lot to do with building my muscle memory.