• ludicolo@lemmy.mlEnglish
    121·
    2 months ago

    Anytime I open Vim I ask the same question.

    “how the fuck do I use you?”

    then go back to nano

    repeat.

  • regeya@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 months ago

    I’m gonna laugh my ass off if someone finds out there was some obscure Emacs fork or clone designed to run Clojure or something, and it’s named Again

    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 months ago

      I know you didn’t ask, but you don’t need a weird fork of emacs to run a Clojure REPL, that just works in regular emacs

  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
    71·
    2 months ago

    How did these people have “text editor wars” and yet failed to deliver a text editor half as good as microsoft’s edit.com ?

    I’m sorry nano, you’re think you’re hot ?

    But you put search on CTRL+W !!!

    Do you know how stupid that is ?

    Just go and try that in your browser …

  • dezmd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    2 months ago

    The only Dad advice you nerds need:

    mcedit from the Midnight Commander (mc) tool is the superior text editor.

    I don’t even run arch, btw.

    • regeya@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      I remember when the GNOME file manager was this kind of interesting hybrid that used MC for the backend. The one thing I liked about it was that it could be docked in Window Maker. Yep I was using a Dock in GNOME waaaaaaaaaaaaaay before most GNOME users.

      Nowadays it’s still possible to replicate my old Window Maker desktop in XFCE.

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 months ago

      Ok, let’s try that

      FIrst

      Ok, that is already more storage space than openwrt needs to run a full linux distro

      root@proxmox:~# mc mytestfile.txt

      Esscuse me, the fuck is this !?

      • dezmd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        You’re looking at the full mc package rather than just mcedit. Even then, Midnight Commander is absolutely worth that whopping 7.9MB of space it takes for all the functionality it provides.

        Openwrt is not an example to use to compate against a package size, as it’s target built to fit into small firmware storage spaces on all sorts of random hardware. That’s comparing existential philosophy with oranges.

        Would you download a car?

    • smooth_tea@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      I’m sure someone already made a graph plotting the hours wasted learning vs the seconds gained not moving your mouse.

    • LordKitsuna@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      It’s a common problem but the correct solution to closing vim is quite easy, press and hold control alt and F5 to drop to a new terminal. From there you can do “killall vim” to properly close vim, then just drop back to your main session