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There we are. Now all is right with the world.

What would an editor discuss be without those that support Emacs?

I noticed we even got some doom evil advocates! Lemmy truly has come off age!

(Note: as tone is hard on text: I'm genuinely pleased, and agree that the joy of Linux/Unix is it's variety. Thank you everyone)

I don't know, I used vim for like 6 years and then discovered, thanks to the power of evil and doom, how much better the vi experience is inside the context of emacs. With all the utilities and packages, it's worth the small additional burden of troubleshooting that it imposes.

Be real fukin careful now. You’ll tear my enacs from my cold dead hands

(But yeah, I use evil-mode. Also I edit files on remote servers with vim. I’m a traitor…)

Recently, I recommended to a friend that basic vim/vi is worth learning because it's a baseline that you can always trust will be there across different Linux systems.

They asked me what I used most on my home system, and the answer was emacs, but I was very clear that I was not recommending it. It's a particular kind of person who finds themselves at home in emacs, and for everyone besides those people, selling them on emacs would feel like persuading them to do hard drugs.

When people are free to choose the best editor for them, we ALL win.

I think there's a good reason for that. If you're not as concerned about resource consumption (Emacs used to be called "Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping", back when 8MB was a lot), then there's no reason to avoid even more complex and resource intensive IDEs. People who wanted a complex editor, but in a relatively small footprint, stuck with some variant of vi.

Thus, vi found a stable evolutionary niche. It's a tardigrade.

you have offended all 6 of us, prepare for retribution

You write Ansible playbooks to automate infrastructure management. But calling it a coding language might be a stretch it is just yaml

Vi is actually a predecessor to Vim but many people, myself included, will alias Nvim or Vim to Vi. And I've seen people use Vi as a catch all too.

I usually refer to im as "vi" just to ~~make people think I'm old school and cool~~ save time typing that last character.

But Obsidian??

Because vii viii ix

We don't want a viditor, we want an editor. Why? Because ed is the standard!

I use vi from an Emacs Shell, which was spawned from an Emacs GUI.

I use whatever the machine gives me when I type vi, I assume it's usually vim

SVG, unironically yes. There's a few times where I found a library or WYSIWYG editor making some strange choices for its SVG output, and I had to fix it manually.