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Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Sep 26, 2020 20:26 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Toward a "modern" Emacs by Sesse
Parent article: Toward a "modern" Emacs

Vim works fine because you need just a handful of commands to get by for regular tasks. And Vim is also present pretty much everywhere, so you kinda eventually have to learn it just to be able to work through SSH.

Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Oct 1, 2020 19:41 UTC (Thu) by ecree (guest, #95790) [Link] (2 responses)

> And Vim is also present pretty much everywhere, so you kinda eventually have to learn it just to be able to work through SSH.

Well, you don't *have* to. You could do what I did and learn ed instead, which means you don't have to look at ugly Vim, and as an additional bonus you get to be insufferably smug. (Well, until someone shows up with butterflies.)

Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Oct 1, 2020 20:47 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html

Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Oct 1, 2020 20:58 UTC (Thu) by ecree (guest, #95790) [Link]

Yes, that's a classic. The only problem is that gnu seem to have misclassified it under 'jokes' :P