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emacs ofc. I’m sure there’s an emacs implementation of heaven
More like heaven implementation within emacs, so you don’t even leave emacs in your second life
that’s what I mean
There are definitely at least 9 circles of emacs filled with tormented souls.
They only know vi and don’t know about evil mode.
Counterpoint, heaven probably has lots of Emacs
heaven.el
Emacs is real whether you like it or not.
(Also I go past one of these billboards about once a week, and I’ve always been so curious about how many calls they get. Or what they say when you call. I should get a Google voice number and check it out.)
vim for the win!
Vim missing in the picture is insulting
Im going to vim heaven :3
saw someone unironically use vim the other day. i thought people actually using vim was a joke.
Been using it for all of my software development for the last 10 years. It’s fantastic.
It’s my go to editor wherever possible.
Learn the keybindings, play a few vim games and install an opinionated suite of plugins like lazyvim.
Before you know it, you too will curse every other editor in existence which doesn’t at least offer vim keybindings 😄
the problem with custom keybindings i have is i work on a lot of different machines (i used 3 different desktop computers yesterday) and keybindings presumably only work on my machine.
Just push your settings to a public github repo or gist and you can wget them. Hell, if you have a domain just setup an easy-to-remember page that redirects to the github link … domain.com/configs. There are so many options for handling this situation.
That’s why vim is so great: it has a ton of power built right into it without customizations, and it’s already installed on basically any unix-like system. Unlike, say, vscode, it can do a ton of stuff out of the box without any plugins at all.
bro how do you comfortably use $, ^ and 0 for navigation??
It’s simply muscle memory. You think of the action and your fingers do it faster than you can consciously think of where they need to go. But I also use a split ergonomic keyboard (the Iris) and have symbols accessible from home row behind a layer. Though I can switch to a standard keyboard as needed too.
oh that’s cool, how do you do home row modifiers like that?
do you use that for normal typing as well or is it just for symbols?
A lot of mechanical keyboards these days are programmable using QMK Firmware. I actually use https://www.caniusevia.com/ instead though, which uses (a subset of) QMK under the hood but allows programming the keyboard via a Web app on the fly.
For my layout, I have the standard QWERTY layout for the unmodified layer (layer 0, holding no keys). Then I can hold down a thumb key for switching to a different layer, which has things like symbols, F1-F12, Home, End, etc. The layout I use isn’t too far off the default Iris layout, just a few tweaks here and there (like one that allows me to hold a key for control, or tap that key for escape).
I have a swedish keyboard because I am swedish, we have three extra letters compared to the english alphabet. Which means that the standard swedish keyboard layout had to tuck away some symbols into very awkward places using AltGr to type. Programming and using Vim is a bad experience with a swedish keyboard imho.
I’ve long wanted a keyboard like that as someone who just writes code all day everyday. But my fear is that I’ll get stuck on a regular keyboard, like when I’m traveling, and just be completely helpless having forgotten how to type normally.
It’s not as big of a deal as you might think. You still have a lot of your muscle memory from regular keyboards. It might take a little while to adjust when switching between the two, but it’s not that bad.
If you switch between the two enough, you can actually type on both equally well.
Much easier than pressing arrow keys like a maniac 😄
(scoffs:) Arrow keys.
You’re not talking to Notepad users.
who even uses arrow keys these days?
I have a colleague who I have to watch when he is editing code or in the terminal. Very frustrating to watch
goto editor for C programming. (Pun intended)
I’ll try emacs as soon as I find something that isn’t already perfect with vi
Well surely vi could be improved, otherwise we wouldn’t have vim?
Then the question becomes, “did neovim go to far?” :D
Neovim is on the path of enlightenment to become Emacs so everything is alright.
Helix
!! helix mentioned !!
I mean…has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
You can’t really use go want to do look more like until you’ve first been far even as decided to even go. It’s a prerequisite🤣
Doom Emacs. made me switch from Vim/Neovim to it. Love it.
Some unspecified promises of confort later, or freedom now and forever? Of course I do not go anywhere but remain at that holly Gnu Emacs !
:q
Edit:
:q!
Ain’t no heaven without Emacs.
Well I guess I’m Doomed then.
I’m destined to go to heavim forever.
There’s a hell below Emacs called neovim I’m going there.
Looks like Kate is heaven. Or Notepad++.
