Comment on emacs

MsPenguinette@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• donnachaidh@lemmy.dcmrobertson.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  alias v=vim. There, just saved you two keystrokes.

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  • MsPenguinette@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    {vi} = 2 {vim} = 3 {v=vim} = 5

    I’d need to run vi at least 5 times to have a net gain in saving keystrokes. I’m typically in effemerial systems created by the users of our env, so rarely am I going to gain those strokes back

    But also, why am I trying to apply logic to this? I’ll often cat a file before editing it. This shit is just illogical idiosyncrasies I’ve picked up over the years. I’m probably creating posthoc justifications for insane things I do cause it’s hard to override muscle memory

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• Spider89@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I use nano.

  Nano >> vi/vim, emacs

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  • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    4 letters < 2 letters.

    Vi forever.

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    • Spider89@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Simplicity > Complexity

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      • Prunebutt@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not if you need any work done.

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      • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Nano is the best when you just need an editor, you can as well use an IDE instead of vi(m) or Emacs.

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  • brodoshmodo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ok but why use nano when micro literally exists

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• LinuxSBC@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Alias?

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  • ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Aliases are just bloat! You can do just fine without them. Heck, why not remove The ASCII conversion and read everything in hex or binary?

    It’s all about SPEED and efficiency here!

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  • MsPenguinette@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m in DevOps so I’m in a lot of effemerial systems so in practice, I will run into systems where profile hasn’t been set up. Tho I do like the idea of making sure all systems properly have that aliased cause it’d be serial killer vibes to spend hours of time to make sure that I can save a keystroke.

    Tho it’d never make it through PR. Also, wild require explaining to my coworkers that I do this

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• expr@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Most all distros alias vi to vim already, so it makes no difference.

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  • Chunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You use vi because you are lazy.

    I used vi because I am too stupid to close it.

    We are not the same.

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  • MsPenguinette@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ll have to check tomarrow if RHEL and UBI do this.

    Did some quick googling and looks like cent has that alias by default but doesn’t do it when root. Which would explain why I do get inconsistent results with vi. I never thought about it in detail besides just knowing that there are some visual changes. Thanks for the info, I’ll be noticing this now that I know!

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• netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Vi is totally fine to quickly make small changes to e.g. a config file on a server. I wouldn’t like to program in vi though.

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  • puppy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You are missing out! I used to only use vim to edit config files. So I knew my way around (albeit, slowly). I installed the IdeaVim plugin a week ago and learned some new key bindings I wasn’t using. A week in I’m almost faster than before! And it’s only going to get better after I’ve acquired muscle memory (I’m nearly there.) and move on to complex key bindings/sequences. Then it will probably be as if the cursor is directly connected to my mind. I’m hopeful because I’ve seen a mentor of mine do it.

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    • netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What am I missing out on? I use vi to change values in files on servers. What would you use for that task? Most of my other text-based work like writing Emails, taking notes or programming happens in Emacs.

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      • puppy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don’t think you understood what I said. I started using vim key bindings ALSO in my IDE and my speed improved because of it. I didn’t ask you to stop using vi. I merely suggested that you used MORE of it. If your Emacs setup already use vim keybindings that’s exactly what I’m doing too.

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  • MsPenguinette@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I do most of my programming in vscode but when I need a cli editor, I use vi

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