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Emacs
(ducks)
I use vi from an Emacs Shell, which was spawned from an Emacs GUI.
bro tryin' to summon a demon... /s
It's a sound choice. I don't like to use it, personally, because I want to use something that uses same motions and syntax as editors on servers that I don't own (ex. customers). And, I'm not a fan of Lisp. It's a great and (self-)extensible text editor/lisp interpreter, though.
Emacs is what the unified linux desktop should be
Evil
I dislike Evil, and would never recommend it to anyone looking for a modal editing solution for Emacs. I would rather break my pinky with the modifiers than use Evil.
noun verbsyntax rather than vi'sverb nounsyntax. This means that you get constant feedback about what youβre acting on before you act on it, since objects are always highlighted.Instead, for anyone looking for a serious and actually good modal editing, I would suggest them to try out meow. It fixes all of the problems I mentioned above, and makes more improvements to the
viexperience that I didn't mention.Emacs
EMACS. Itβs the superior text editor.
I'd say it's a superior text editor.
link the vi command to emacs, and you'll be able to say you use vi
I haven't wanted to say that in the 32 years I've had the choice.
oh ok then link the emacs command to vi and you'll be able to keep saying you use emacs while using a better text editor π
(please dont kill me this is a joke i dont even use vi please have mercy please spare me please please please)
This is the way.
No