Yesterday's Rose
Landa 
@mdhughes Well, that's not how I envisioned the Editor Wars to end…
@siegel
jackNow that #vim seems to be going down the #AIslop drain... might this finally be the year of #Emacs on the #desktop?
Also containing *proper" #AI since the #80ies!
BastilleBSD 
The `vi` editor, a staple of UNIX-like systems, was first released in 1976 as part of the BSD. What are your favorite `vi`/`vim` tricks?
I regularly use the `gq` command in vim to clean up and format text blocks.
Karl Voit 
#Emacs vs. #vim Real World Analogy: #CargoBike Vs. #FoldingBike
https://karl-voit.at/2026/01/23/Emacs-vs-vim-Cargo-Folding-Bike/
This isn't supposed to deliver fuel to the gratuitous #editorwar.
It's supposed to clear up a few things why the two tools are so fundamentally different.
HTH
Peter N. M. HansteenTired of the interminable emacs vs vi editor wars (with praise for nano baked in)? Back in 2018 I wrote "ed(1) mastery is a must for a real Unix person" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/ed_mastery_is_a_must_for_real_unix_person.html - a review of @mwl 's then recent book #ed #vi #emacs #editors #unix #editorwars #standardeditor
Seán Fenian#EditorWars #opensource
If you have to ask for help in a forum to do something as simple as search for and paste-replace a single word with the editor you're using, you might be using the wrong editor. 😅
If you have to ask for help in a forum to do something as simple as search for and paste-replace a single word with the editor you're using, you might be using the wrong editor. 😅
@chesheer IMO people have lost the ability to discuss topics in a non-personal fashion. Factual level vs. personal level.
Nowadays, the tendency that any discussion results in personal insults is very high.
Besides: since #Emacs is able to do everything(!) that #vim does (except vimscript) but vim can only do vim-stuff but only a tiny fraction of the stuff that's built-in or optional within Emacs, this is actually settled once and for all. 😈
Helix 
Ich hab immer noch keinen gescheiten #Editor gefunden. #fediHilfe!
Anforderungen: CLI+GUI, Multi Select (Maus), Keybindings (CUA+editable), responsive, linting, completion, light theme.
VSCodium, Atom etc.: zu lahm (Electron)
vim: zu viele weirde Modi
Emacs: Handkrampf
Helix, Zed, Tilde: brauchen LSP server
Sublime: proprietär
Geany: zu wenige Plugins, keine CLI, sonst geil
Micro: GUI suboptimal
TronNerd821. Vim. Clicks with me like no other
2. ed. Classic, does one thing and does it good
3. Vi. A good fallback
4. Joe. Haven't given it much time but it seems quite nice
5. Nano. If it works for you then great, but it's simply ok for me
go waaayyyyyyyy down here...
at the bottom, Emacs. Maybe I'm just stupid, but I literally can't use it for shit. I can exit and do the xkcd butterfly thing, but nothing else
#TextEditors #Vim #Emacs #ed #Joe #Nano #Vi #EditorWars #Ranking