I identify as fully bi-textual. 😇 I always wrote code in emacs, but would load vim up for quickie edits. I feel like you can generally identify people's primary orientation by inspecting what's in $EDITOR and $VISUAL, tho. - ThreadSky

charity.wtf • 76 days ago

I identify as fully bi-textual. 😇 I always wrote code in emacs, but would load vim up for quickie edits.

I feel like you can generally identify people's primary orientation by inspecting what's in $EDITOR and $VISUAL, tho.

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Ah dang it, I read the post and it turns out we agree!

Um... emacs is the only true editor?

I got nothing 🤣

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grey.tertiusfamily.net•76 days ago

I'm stealing "bi-textual".

I agree, emacs for long editing and org-mode, vim for quickies. Hmmm... I see some parallels 🤣

I can't seem to settle on just one programming language, either! One might accuse me of being poly... lingual

skippy.net•75 days ago

Grew up ssh’ing into remote servers to manage them. vi(m) was always there, so it’s what I learned. Never used emacs; and now 30 years later I’m afraid to try!

kmueller.bsky.social•75 days ago

I learned the vi cursor move keys from playing rogue/nethack and I could never unlearn it enough for emacs 😂

sp4zm.bsky.social•75 days ago

The old nethack to vi pipeline.

kmueller.bsky.social•75 days ago

I knew several people back in the day where this was true for!

sp4zm.bsky.social•75 days ago

I am almost ashamed to say I use numpad when I play nethack, so I had to learn the vi keys the hard way.

kmueller.bsky.social•75 days ago

Nothing to be ashamed of! I would have, too, except the systems I first learned on had no arrow keys or number pads 😅

palmertree.bsky.social•75 days ago

Why are you bringing up all the old engagement hits? Friday deploy is now the old, new emacs/vim. Sure it still works, but we see what you're doing.

felipe.rs•75 days ago

I tried emacs before transitioning to vim and never went back. Does that make me trans-textual?

charity.wtf•75 days ago

Haha 🏆

apjanke.bsky.social•75 days ago

I'm non-binary myself. I stick with plaintext formats like JSON and XML.

charity.wtf•75 days ago

Nicely done 👏

billkarwin.geek.org•75 days ago

Hallway conversation at SCO circa 1991... Engineers were working on SCO UNIX, making the much leaner SCO Xenix product obsolete.

"I don't use emacs, because I don't want my editor to be larger than the OS kernel."

"Well, UNIX fixes that!"

"Yes, but in the wrong direction!"

zachmccoy.bsky.social•67 days ago

I'm unsure what this means for me using DOOM Emacs that comes with VIM key binds 🤔

charity.wtf•67 days ago

omg zach 🥹

zachmccoy.bsky.social•66 days ago

I still have the emacs skills of a small child but I feel powerful

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