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[โ€“] jsnc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I think Vim bindings are dumb and get in the way. I will never understand the appeal of modal editing. Emacs was always the superior program since it was released by Richard Stallman in 1985.

Emacs was always the superior program since it was released by Richard Stallman in 1985.

Easily agreed.

That being said I can't go back from my meow modal keybindings

[โ€“] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I prefer Microsoft/Apple/IBM style key bindings (Ctrl+X to cut, Ctrl+V to paste, etc). Text editors don't need to have a completely different set of key bindings from everything else.

[โ€“] Parsnip8904@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Angry vim noises.

[โ€“] trimmerfrost@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Clearly you haven't ever used vim bindings

[โ€“] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Anyone that uses either is just doing so to feel superior, people sitting on 64 gig of ram, 32 core processors, 4090 gfx cards but they can't spare the system resources for a proper gui? People only like them because they're hard to use and awkward.

[โ€“] charje@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Emacs has a proper gui by default. You have to give it option to make it run in the terminal.

[โ€“] jsnc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, to feel superior to all those ELECTRON app users.

Ewwwwwwww electronnnn.