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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Church of Emacs vs. Cult of vi is the only true rivalry. Enlightenment will only be found taking one of these paths.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I recently learned there are people that think emacs and vi are bloated. They like acme or sam or something. Iceberg is so deep.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ed users have not found the internet yet, otherwise they'd be in the war too

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

When you think of a bloated text editor, you would not expect VI to be that. If anything, it's closer to the opposite.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Check this out. It puts everything I thought that was, you know, more ethical to use to the harmful section and suggests some unknown and probably not very useful today stuff. Can someone explain if they have good points or not?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Unclear. They don't give their reasoning beyond "complicated = bad", and very specifically leave it up to the imagination of the reader.

While they make some interesting points with regards to overcomplication and scope creep, there are also good reasons why we're still not using programs like ed as text editors, such as it being arcane and unintuitive.

vi will at least helpfully point out :exit is not an editor command. Instead, ed will not-so-helpfully point out ?.

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