Coding in Ansible?
Sorry maybe I’m dumb. But does this mean VIM and Obsidian are Vi?
I usually refer to im as “vi” just to
make people think I’m old school and coolsave time typing that last character.But Obsidian??
Oh yes. My “excell isn’t a database” program. Obsidian.
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.
The comments on this post went exactly like they have over the past 20 years, with one exception.
Emacs is all but forgoten.
Vim wins.
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…)
When people are free to choose the best editor for them, we ALL win.
Unless it happens to be Ms word, in which case we all lose
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.
Didn’t even macs have vi?
Basically every Unix-derived OS comes with vi. Emacs came out in 1976, macs didn’t exist until 1984.
Yes and it’s better than TextEdit that is bundled with MacOs
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
Bro you forgot the ‘m’ at the end of vi
And the i, c, r, and o. In fact keep the vi.
What makes 6 so popular?
Because vii viii ix
LXIX my balls! Haha got’em.
Believe it or not, this is the second time I got to make that joke within an hour.
* laughs in Latin *
Well, “vi is love” is something I always see as “masochism is related to sex”.
How would you categorize masochism as not sex? :o
Everything is sex, except sex, which is power
- Not Oscar Wild
Oscar wild is pure sex and resting in power, so…maybe both
I know it from the Janelle monet song which apparently quotes a book from 2002 but I find it hard to believe that’s the first time the phrase was said.
Well, using vi without being forced at gunpoint.
And before you accuse me of being an Emacs fanatic - nope, they exist on the same level of masochism.
We don’t want a viditor, we want an editor. Why? Because ed is the standard!
On the system I administrate,
viis symlinked toedadministrate
Mike Tyson?
Emacs
(ducks)
Emacs
It’s a sound choice. I don’t like to use it, personally, because I want to use something that uses same motions and syntax as editors on servers that I don’t own (ex. customers). And, I’m not a fan of Lisp. It’s a great and (self-)extensible text editor/lisp interpreter, though.
I use vi from an Emacs Shell, which was spawned from an Emacs GUI.
bro tryin’ to summon a demon… /s
Emacs is what the unified linux desktop should be
EMACS. It’s the superior text editor.
I’d say it’s a superior text editor.
link the vi command to emacs, and you’ll be able to say you use vi
you’ll be able to say you use vi
I haven’t wanted to say that in the 32 years I’ve had the choice.
oh ok then link the emacs command to vi and you’ll be able to keep saying you use emacs while using a better text editor 👍
(please dont kill me this is a joke i dont even use vi please have mercy please spare me please please please)
This is the way.
No
Vi hasn’t been updated since 2005. Aren’t everyone just using vim or neovim?
I use whatever the machine gives me when I type
vi, I assume it’s usually vimHuh,
vifor me has always been actual vi, not vim. Didn’t know some systems symlink vi to vim.A long time ago, someone posted advocating symlinking
vitoemacs. Evil, but entertaining.vim has a limited “vi-mode” that it uses if you call it as vi. so it could still be vim.
Ohh that makes more sense. Yeah perhaps, although come to think of it I still need to install vim from the package manager even if vi works fresh out of the box so maybe not?
i think there’s also a
vim-minithat gets installed by default in some debian-based distros.
Vim is the preferred experience, so it’s for end users. Unless you have a system with no real addons and classic *nix environment, you’re almost always going to be using Vim. Alpine linux is a good example of a stripped down environment that still uses Vi.
Not to imply that Vi is perfect, but Vi is perfect. What do you need an update for? /s
Ah, nice one! Didn’t realize it could even be done.
It isn’t as dumb as it sounds, honestly! I used to use DBeaver and it is a fantastic project, but I really wanted Vim keybinds to construct my queries as they can sometimes be quite large. There used to be a plugin that added the functionality but it stopped working on my machine. This Vim plugin is essentially a wrapper for the CLI SQL client (psql in my case), so using it actually kind of makes sense, I think.
The biggest issue I faced was exporting the results, but I just created a function in my ~/.vimrc that copies all the text of the results to a new tab and formats it however I want. CSV, HTML, JSON, XML, Markdown, whatever I need is all there and predefined. All I have to do is call
:ExportToMarkdownand off I go.
Op, what do you find more offputting: emacs or neovim?
Editing excel spreadsheet? VI
Excel files (.xlsx) is just an archive of some XML files and whatnot, so sure you could edit them in vim.
Though I’d rather edit them in CSV format
Java? vi!
COBOL? vi!
SVG? Believe it or not, vi!/s
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.
BMP? vi and control-v!
WAV? There’s probably a plugin for that!
Everyone at work is using Cursor these days, except for me using neovim and my emacs loving coworker. When we present during pair programming our coworkers go nuts over watching our workflows and trying to figure out if they can do similar things in Cursor lol.
What is Cursor, another AI-infested slop?
It’s a version of VSCode with deep AI integration. I’ll say, it’s pretty good from a workflow perspective. But I just use Avante to similar effect.
tbh they probably can, it’s just more
ctrlinvolvedProbably!
Neovim and emacs are both incredibly heavy. I would rather just use something like VScodium.
Nano and Vim are small and quick.
I would like you to open the same file in neovim, Emacs, and vscodium and see the ram usage.
Matter of fact I’ve done this for you (230 line json):
heavily customised emacs: 34 MB
heavily customised neovim: 32 MB
Newly installed vscodium: 300 MB+both emacs and neovim have syntax highlighting, completion, mouse support, terminal support, window management, and so on
Debugger?
Yea they can attach to debuggers via dap
great
in highschool my physics teacher used vim to write stuff, like most times when checking if everyone was in class he’d just open vim and type people’s name in there
