Emacs is a text editor at its core, just like vim. The difference is that emacs is extendable. You can write, or install, custom packages for it to make it do damn near anything you ever want, far, far above and beyond just text processing.

Vim is simple and unobtrusive, it has a job and it performs that job and nothing else. It is the purest essence of a text editor. Emacs is an all purpose tool that can be tweaked and changed based on your current or future needs. They appeal to different types of nerds.

[–] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I can't understand this chart

If I do it and spent amount of time optimizing it, I can save time? like what?

[–] shikogo@pawb.social 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If you do a task daily, and you can shave one second off it, you save 30 minutes in 5 years. So as long as you spend less than that developing whatever tool or technique making it more efficient, you end up saving more time than you spent optimizing.

[–] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

oh ok, thx

[–] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 12 points 10 months ago

I love this and am glad to see it again after all these years. Other considerations, in addition to time, might be 1) whether the project taught you something new, and 2) if there is some mental or physical health benefit to automating the task

[–] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 9 points 10 months ago

ADHD life.

[–] colin@lemmy.uninsane.org 5 points 10 months ago

i'd definitely be more high-functioning if i followed this chart, but i also really don't want to.