For everyone who has not already, this is so worth a read: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2024
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Thank you. I had not read that before. The novice's first steps are just wonderful.
"WYGIWYG" - love it
This is awesome. But one question as I'm not so familiar with emacs: Why do they punish someone when trying to use emacs but not vi? Why do you see emacs as something works?
Not sure, but I think emacs at least used to have a reputation as a resourse hog and bloated. So maybe that?
emacs is not that hard. You can learn emacs in one day—every day.
I really f'ing love Emacs, and... this is true. I'm still constantly learning, 3 decades in.
But that's part of its appeal - it's a constantly evolving, you tweak and modify it for your needs, and you grow and change together.
I'm very partial to doom emacs. I love the emacs ecosystem but the default editor made me want to cry, doom emacs gives the awesome text editing of vim with the awesome ecosystem of emacs (significantly smoother than viper too)
it always entertains me when a vim aficionado regurgitates the "just missing a good editor" joke, given that one of the editors Emacs offers is a pretty comprehensive clone of vim.
(personally, I never had any problem with the default editor when I migrated to it from vi, though I was using a keyboard that already had ctrl next to a.)
I mean, it is old. Can't blame it.
Ed is the standard text editor.
They don't call it a viitor or an emacsitor. It's an EDitor!
This is correct.
Simple and gets the job done. ~~How do you exit it though?~~
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I just felt that many people may get lost in it when first using it, the same way ppl get lost in vim. At least I managed to get lost in both of them when I first tried them.
Ohh, I know, I was just making a joke cuz ed will print ? when it doesn't recognize a command and many people will see that over and over if they can't figure out how to exit lol
I also got lost in vi and ed when I first used them lol
Tbh if I'm just making quick edits to config files or whatever I use nano lmao
got me there : )
I am unfortunately so used to vim and its bindings that I suffer whenever I can't use it. It can be really tricky to do certain operations in other editors.
I'm afraid to see it's comeback for nano.
/usr/bin/joe mama
Y NOT NANO THO? /s
Just use duckduckgo.com and everyone will be happy.
I meant vim, but no hard feelings.