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| emacs |
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0 | 0% |
| vim |
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11 | 20.00% |
| notepad |
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2 | 3.64% |
| notepad ++ |
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10 | 18.18% |
| textedit |
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2 | 3.64% |
| microsoft word |
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2 | 3.64% |
| notes.app |
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3 | 5.45% |
| vscode |
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7 | 12.73% |
| sublime or atomic or one of those |
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7 | 12.73% |
| textwrangler (remember that one?) |
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3 | 5.45% |
| <textarea> in the browser |
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2 | 3.64% |
| this thread |
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6 | 10.91% |
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I've been using either TextEdit, Notepad++, or vim for the past as long as I can remember. But I feel like my life is too easy these days, and I'm walking around not being angry enough at computers, so it's time to spice up the ol' text love life. Should I switch to emacs? I don't do any coding, most of what I use text editors for is to look like a hacker whilst screensharing.
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Aug 3, 2022 22:11
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use hackertyper.net op
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Aug 3, 2022 22:12
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emacs is great for looking like you know what you're doing
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Aug 3, 2022 22:14
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i remember the notepad++ guy posted this whole thing about how he's saving the planet because np++ code was cleanly written and thus more energy efficient. in reaction, i set my work laptop up so that whenever np++ was open it was also running folding@home full throttle
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Aug 3, 2022 22:16
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no nano, voted 1
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Aug 3, 2022 22:30
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emacs is garbo
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Aug 3, 2022 22:32
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aw frig aw dang it posted:emacs is great for looking like you know what you're doing Perfect.
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Aug 3, 2022 22:32
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Jonny 290 posted:i remember the notepad++ guy posted this whole thing about how he's saving the planet because np++ code was cleanly written and thus more energy efficient. in reaction, i set my work laptop up so that whenever np++ was open it was also running folding@home full throttle It's still a great program though. I edited CIV2 files so much more efficiently in np++ versus boring windows notepad.
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Aug 3, 2022 22:33
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In fact, the only proper use case for notepad.exe is as a chat platform with the user you're remote-cjing.
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Aug 3, 2022 22:33
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used emacs for 20 years, but visual studio code grabbed the best (as well as some of the worse) aspects of emacs and ran with it. most notably pervasive extensions (good), the mess associated with random extensions (bad), and thoroughly one-upping tramp mode. otoh for this thread emacs probably fits, as one of the main ways in which it is bad is how its approach to ui is forever stuck in the 70s (the only small concessions being pretty much 100% lucid shaming the fsf into a few incrediby crude richer ui features). makes it look plenty arcane though.
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Aug 3, 2022 22:43
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Emacs is fantastic
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Aug 3, 2022 22:50
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no
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Aug 3, 2022 22:56
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I use emacs and I'm a really good programmer that everyone respects
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Aug 3, 2022 23:10
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https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/vi.html
matti fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Aug 3, 2022 |
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Aug 3, 2022 23:11
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every macro! alas, crappy skills.
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Aug 3, 2022 23:13
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simple
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Aug 3, 2022 23:20
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emacs is a good way to be annoying so you should use it if your goal is to be annoying, op
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Aug 3, 2022 23:26
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 the perfect software...
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Aug 3, 2022 23:26
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implementing vi is left as an intellectual exercise to the reader
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Aug 3, 2022 23:28
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ive just used vi through an adb connection to a bluestacks instance through the windows command line through a remote desktop connection to my mom's brand new laptop to edit a config file for an awful mobile game that my mom has sunk untold amount of time into to make it reconnect to the same game save she had on her tablet that just died (because it's "not saved in the cloud" if you refuse to use facebook but they put it on the cloud anyway but with a randomly generated account name and password tied to your device to artificially imbue the process with "not cloud" downsides) and I must say that emacs wouldn't have made any of this any less painful
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Aug 3, 2022 23:51
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ideally you use vim, get stuck in it, and never figure out how to post again
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Aug 3, 2022 23:59
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i never understood the 'confusing to quit vim' meme. :q whats hard about that its easier than ctrl+c ctrl+shift+x+z or whatever the gently caress emacs wants.
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Aug 4, 2022 00:02
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post hole digger posted:i never understood the 'confusing to quit vim' meme. :q whats hard about that nobody uses emacs
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Aug 4, 2022 00:46
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the only people who still use emacs are ancient grogs who have this 182 kilobyte macro library set up to replace all function calls with GOTOs or some similarly awful code habit
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Aug 4, 2022 01:01
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the few people who used emacs that ive worked with all had rsi, probably from chording way too much though it can easily be the other way, the only editor amenable to hahaha ok i cant finish this
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Aug 4, 2022 01:09
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I use emacs. AMA.
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Aug 4, 2022 01:25
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vscode is pretty great tbh and gets better alarmingly quickly if you want to do vi, i recently found this: https://github.com/AstroNvim/AstroNvim which turns it into an kind-of-like-vscode which might be a good middle ground if you want to be a bit frustrated and not have vscode's "contemptible" graphical user interface but have something that approximates it
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Aug 4, 2022 01:25
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nvrgrls posted:It's still a great program though. I edited CIV2 files so much more efficiently in np++ versus boring windows notepad. it was practically a requirement if you were on windows, as for the longest time, notepad.exe didn't handle unix line endings so you would open a file and it would just be one extremely long line
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Aug 4, 2022 02:51
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in things that certainly make me *not* look like a cool hacker is that with switching from emacs to vscode i needed a secondary console editor for the few times when launching vscode/remoting was inconvenient. i this time said "gently caress it, lets have the same key bindings as every modern application" and picked up micro. feels a lot like being a nano user, but having the same selection semantics and keybindings as every other textfield on my system is simply better after having given up the pretty dubious advantage of using the same editor forced into both a gui (well "gui") and console form.
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Aug 4, 2022 08:02
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use vscode idiot
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Aug 4, 2022 09:23
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Zlodo posted:ive just used vi powerful curse. you are a dutiful child
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Aug 4, 2022 09:27
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op do you need to talk about stuff? people don't normally put ideations of self-harm in their thread titles
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Aug 4, 2022 10:48
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cant find bbedit in your poll; voted 1
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Aug 4, 2022 10:55
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Thanks everyone. Looks like the poll says vim is still the best so I've been making the right decision all these years and will continue to make that decision. Remain blessed!
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Aug 4, 2022 16:56
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notepad++ is the best thing for editing text files but its not an IDE. for that you need visual studio
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Aug 4, 2022 16:57
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i use emacs as my window manager op
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Aug 4, 2022 18:13
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I figured out why they call you never girls 
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Aug 4, 2022 18:19
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emacs are the ones who live on endor right?
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Aug 4, 2022 18:24
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notepad++ lmao, throw that poo poo out the window. learn vim, then throw vim out the window and install emacs with evil. if you're a js developer install neovim and enjoy the constant churn and breakage you're so used to. if you love satan and need to be productive, just use vscode.
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Aug 5, 2022 20:21
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Jonny 290 posted:i remember the notepad++ guy posted this whole thing about how he's saving the planet because np++ code was cleanly written and thus more energy efficient. in reaction, i set my work laptop up so that whenever np++ was open it was also running folding@home full throttle lmfao
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