That meme clearly comes from an emacs fanboy.
emacs
I actually don't know what emacs means. I only remember having struggles in understanding anyone who likes vim, because it mostly just confused me. But Probably its just what you are used to. The Meme is still funny, though.
Don't discount the possibility that some people that use vim, are old enough to remember using vi, over a modem connection. When you know the keyboard shortcuts it can be a lot quicker too even now.
Vi is incredibly snappy when it came to commands.
Want to save? :w
Want to quit? :q
Want to save and quit? :wq
Very elegant. GUI WYSIWYG doesn't come close when it comes to commands.
A lot of the things I'm using are generally hangovers from those low bandwidth days. I've opened a file and I know what I want is a way down? Not a problem 10-Page down to move 10 pages down the file without sending all that to the terminal.
What to cut the next 5 lines into the buffer? 5dd. Move to the line you want to paste to. Want to remove the next 5 characters? 5x. Often on a slow link moving your cursor along had a delay. But if you knew how far you needed to go you could do 30+arrow right to get the cursor to move directly there.
I think most are obsolete now, but I'm still used to using them out of habit mostly.
Man, this comment made me feel a little embarrassed at myself. I saw the shortcuts and thought about how I have a tradition of going to the top of the file when I'm done editing and about to save/quit. I always hit the shortcut for it and think "gg boys! Good game" and then quit out of vim.
Stop judging me.
That would be me. I still call it "vi", default to it, and use "less" to preview files because I do almost everything on CLI. Vi is incredibly fast and powerful once you know it like second nature. I prefer vi over most, but the learning curve is a beast.
vim is a little hard to get into, but from there its benefits pay off with lots of features. On the other hand there is emacs, with an even steeper learning curve (*cough* long inconvenient button combos!), but it's considered so powerful, some say it's a separate operating system.
They say Emacs is an amazing OS, with the best calendar, to-do list, email client, etc. Just missing a good text editor.
Guess what, you can run Vim inside Emacs inside Vim inside Emacs now!
emacs has a steeper learning curve? You can M-x <type stuff> tab to figure out how to do stuff, which is easier than Vim for learning IMO
What's even more crazy is when you've used vim exclusively for 30 years to the point where you sit down at someone else's computer and you try to use their editor and you are completely lost. You fumble around like you're an elderly person who doesn't know what a computer is, type random letters all over. You look senile.
But then you show them on your computer how you can record a macro of your key commands and then use a regex to match different blocks of similar text and apply the same commands all at once. And because you used navigation based on words and lines rather than characters it all just works.
I think that's true of all editors, though. I ended up on the intellij side of things, and it means I'm clueless about VSCode's key patterns. I've only picked up ctrl-p so far, and keep having to remind myself "this is shift-shift in Microsoft"
VSCode is what made me finally switch away from vim for anything but minor edits. It's just too good.
I did set up vim keybindings in it, though.
Just to be helpful:
Honestly that's about all of the shortcuts I use. The Ctrl+Shift+P menu will show you the keyboard shortcut next to the command, if it has one, so you can easily memorize it if you use a command often.
It comes from the words "Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping".
Yeah, the name hasn't aged well..
Nvim user so imo it would be funnier if it was about getting caught up in spending more time customising the editor than using it or something, but atm just reads like someone who only got as far as opening vim and not being able to figure out how to close it
For my vim journey it was the draw of being able to quickly navigate and manipulate text without ever needing my hands to move away from the home row on the keyboard, and being willing to put in the time and effort to push past the learning curve.
I first settled on vim as a teenager because I was a fan of... performing surprise penetration tests.
It defaults to opening files read-only, so you don't have to worry about the access/modified time on the file changing if you open one for... science reasons.
:q! this meme, man
You forgot to his escape twice first. You're in insert mode sir.
More like ... Just in case
More like ... Just in case
MY PEOPLE!
ZZ, more often than not.
:q!<CR> is equivalent to ZQ
^Zkill -9 %1 is the only way.
kill -9 -1 if that doesn't work.
This whole thread. I think you're just hitting random keys.
I think you mean to say
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The editor so good people never learn to leave it.
Take my angry upvote
Out of curiosity, I wondered what the original meme was. Found them and thought I’d share them:
Here’s the original: https://i.imgur.com/kERuZkW.jpg
And here’s the one that this is based off (slightly different): https://i.imgur.com/HFwENsd.png
BTW, just in case you didn't know, you can put images directly in your comment with this:
vim is so last year. have you people heard of GitHub's new 'Atom' IDE? I think it'll be the next big thing 😊
An IDE written in Electron?? What a terrible idea! Nobody would ever be stupid enough to let something like that take off...
Vim keys in vscode for the win, I'm dead serious
Neovim is awesome
In a moment of weakness I configured the Visual Studio to use Vim as input method and now I don't know how to change it back.
My entire first year as a network student was a Bernie meme: "i am once again asking, how do i exit vim?"
I legit code in nano.
But why?
Did you start with busybox and just decide to stay there?
I can quit whenever I like. I just don't want to eyes shifting nervously
Op, we have decided to go with a different candidate
They give us their ‘cures’ (neovim) while they suppress our medicine (emacs)
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