Yeah, emacs makes way more sense for this one

The only thing emacs is missing is a text editor

C-x M-c M-butterfly

https://xkcd.com/378/

yea, emacs even has a doctor

Is it possible to downvote a comment twice?

I am a firm believer of (neo)vim being the pinnacle of editing. My workdays start with vim and end with vim. But vim is not the everything app, which the e in emacs probably stands for.

HOWEVER, there are vim plugins for almost everything, which is pretty cool. This point goes to you, emacs rivals. Let's keep it between us and not the vs code or IDE weirdos

Only acceptable in eVil form

Neovim*

I don't even agree with the meme and I hate this comment.

How the fuck did you beat me to it and get so many up votes so fast

It should be Neovim and Lua. Nobody should be subjected to the curse and torment of writing Elisp.

shots fired

only because once you start using vim, you can't stop. why do you think people make full on operating systems within vim?

because they can't leave.

open it, use it. keep using it because you can't close it

EMACS CURED MY AUTISM!

what sort of honoric is et al, does it make you plural?

-> Vim

It's a great OS it's just lacking a decent text editor.

🦶

Can emacs really do all of this?

emacs -> back to vim

Vim is a sorry excuse of Emacs. Which is the editor made in and for the language of God, Lisp

That's not gibberish, those are hilarious jokes using sophisticated vim commands. Here's another, which you have no hope of understanding, but vim users will love:

:%s/ass/butt/g

Is this navigation?

Cast out the unbeliever! Drive them from our light! Let them not pass amongst the true believers lest they lead others astray!

From a "giving tech support" POV, nano is the best editor. Have you ever tried walking a non-techie through editing a config file on the command line, over the phone, no screen share? Nano is your friend. (I swear, this very expensive software I used to support got its sysadmins by picking whoever was absent the day the the client site figured out someone had to do it.)

Now I Declare The Start of The Holy EDITOR WAR!!!!

NGL this was my first thought, and I don't even use Emacs!

M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead

Vim too. The difference is that emacs cultivates and promotes its omnitool capabilities, while vim hides its equally omnipotent plugins shamefully in https://www.vim.org/scripts/

I sure hope you do Not use a non patched Xerox Workstation for it.....

Explanation: They had a bug a few years ago where the scanners would alter numbers due to their compression algorithm.

Of course theres a relevant XKCD

That silly program can't trick me! I used Vim last year and I'm totally able to use other programs!

...I just have to use Vim also at all times!

I would respond.. but I can’t figure out how to exit Vim

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The problem with using Vim is that you have to learn Vim, but early in my career I was in single-ecosystem shops that all used IDE's for whatever tech (Microsoft= Visual Studio, Java = Eclipse / NetBeans, PHP = Sublime Text, arguably not an IDE)

By the time I got to the point in my career where I got to choose the tooling, VSCode was already a thing and it has an extension for anything you can think of.

So I never had to learn Vim, and now it's in the too-hard basket, and VSCode is ubiquitous and works surprisingly well

So I recently switched to vim as my text editor. And started using vimwiki for notes. But I must know what insanity could one possibly do with a Text editor other than... Well text edit.

It's standard for a reason.

But I don't need an editor, do you see an editor somewhere in the infographics? Thought so.

He tried to, but couldn't enter edit mode to type it out

:q to be exact

$ vimtutor

vimtutor is the starting point for learning vim, but it's fairly surface-level. To actually learn vim, you should read through the user manual by typing :help usr_01 and hitting enter in vim. It's also accessible online here: https://vimhelp.org/usr_01.txt.html#usr_01.txt.

It's a fairly quick read, about 40ish pages that are reasonably short and is intended to be read straight through like a book. It provides a good overview of all of vim's features.

Note: this is distinct from the reference manual, which is much, much larger and isn't intended to be read straight through.

It depends on your distro. It could be sudo apt install emacs or sudo dnf install emacs or sudo pacman -S emacs, etc.

You'd have to know how to exit Vim to do that though

Please! no more editor wars, just use ed! And if you need the fancy modern features, you can always use notepad.

Vim -> Helix

I do not agree with your premise. Some editors should be simple and approachable above all. Some should also be super customizable and efficient to use for those who want do dive deep into their editor.

it feels like it was made quickly after people complained about vim or emacs bein too hard and then just minimally maintained

Text editors should be simple and approachable above all.

Why? I'd say they should edit text well above all.

"Ed is the standard text editor."

Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:

golem> ed

?
help
?
?
?
quit
?
exit
?
bye
?
hello? 
?
eat flaming death
?
^C
?
^C
?
^D
?

---
Note the consistent user interface and error reportage.  Ed is
generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm
the novice with verbosity.

"Ed is the standard text editor."

Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA!  ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED
AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES!  ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS
BODILY FLUIDS!!  ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR!  ED MAKES THE SUN
SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!

When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless
help screens and cursor positioning code!  I just want an EDitor!!
Not a "viitor".  Not a "emacsitor".  Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED!
ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!

TEXT EDITOR.

When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their
"edlin" on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi?  No.  Emacs?  Surely
you jest.  They chose the most karmic editor of all.  The standard.

Ed is for those who can *remember* what they are working on.  If you
are an idiot, you should use Emacs.  If you are an Emacs, you should
not be vi.  If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION.  THE
SO-CALLED "VISUAL" EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE
FAITHLESS.  DO NOT GIVE IN!!!  THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!

For simple edits to single text files nano has to be my most used editor. Vim is a close second though.

For editing code, I've used just about everything for one reason or another but it's usually just my IDE with the directory open.

::: spoiler Guess what? :) Vim :::

I'm not shure whether vim is not capable of handling photos — I never tried this plugin: https://github.com/ashisha/image.vim

Edit: it's 10 years old and uses python2 and PIL, so it needs a bit dusting off, but with a bit of caring love, it should be able to run again.