Post #2777373
2026-05-12 14:50 UTC
@amcooper@toot.cat @onepict@chaos.social I've been meaning to take a look at emacs for about 30 years now 😉 , it's just never hit the top of the priority list. vim has always been sufficient for my needs, and, until the LLM sloppification, never sufficiently annoyed me to go shopping for a text editor.
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@dentangle@chaos.social 2026-05-12 14:53
@amcooper@toot.cat @onepict@chaos.social While I was working on the gentoo ebuild for vim-classic I unexpectedly found myself without another text editor during the switch and briefly used ed(1) - it's surprisingly usable - fortunately I'm used to sed(1) commands. I could *almost* get by with ed, though I'd miss split screen editing when writing serious code. Have used it a few times since when I've had small sysadmin jobs to do, and it really does 90% of what I want.