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d:
--- Quote from: TristanLuigi on February 01, 2017, 10:30:00 PM ---yeah this
what's with the obsession with emacs and vim, just loving use atom or sublime text or something
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Because they're the oldest and most well known. Vim just does what you want. I tried using Atom once and it was a loving mess.
FelipeO_O_:
Emacs is the Gnu official text editor. Never used it though
Metario:
--- Quote from: d on February 01, 2017, 11:31:56 PM ---Because they're the oldest and most well known. Vim just does what you want. I tried using Atom once and it was a loving mess.
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Legitimately. Atom takes literal years to start up. I can open Vim in a few milliseconds and immediately start commiting my changes to whatever git repo I'm working on. Sublime Text is OK, I use it for very quick referencing, but if I'm working on a project full-time, I cannot stand using other text editors. I'm so used to be able to yank an entire line with two keystrokes, replace a bunch of text with a regexp pattern, use macros for something like an if statement/case statement, have syntax checking, have more community support + better package management, and come on nearly *nix distribution. It's just my personal preference, but I'm just saying. Vim is legitimately great.
--- Quote from: Foxscotch on February 01, 2017, 10:29:19 PM ---"my brand of convoluted nonsense is better than your brand of convoluted nonsense"
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Accurate.
The Murderous Cop:
so am i the only one who uses nano or
SuperSuit12:
oh yeah, forgot about virtual machines
I'll look into setting one up if I need it. Maybe I should set up a Windows VM too, since I've been messing with removing keystrokes from existence