Finally solved the #Degoogling debate. Anyone who finds fault with this list = Skill issue.
@art I'm an emacs guy but it still works 😺
@jdarnold @art The amazing thing is that I'm pretty sure emacs actually does all of that.
@xmanmonk @jdarnold @art Just to take an example: org-mode is phenomenal! And it reduces friction to the bare minimum. Now, the original post evoking skill issues is a bit dull. How do we learn? Not out of thin air. I am ever grateful to the emacs-loving colleagues who forced me to look at things differently and explore emacs capabilities, of which I know maybe 2%, 15 years later 😄
@xmanmonk @jdarnold @art also it has a working RSS reader
@xmanmonk @jdarnold @art came here to say exactly that. And I don't even use emacs (bcs I can't remember all the combinations)

@xmanmonk @jdarnold @art Emacs is a great suite of applications. Just needs a usable text editor 🤭

Sorry, I couldn't resist

@art

Sure, vim is google-free, but it could really use a good text editor.

@art This is Emacs erasure.

@art

Oh so vim has finally caught up to Emacs? ;)

Here's an Emacs package to do one of tasks a bit more challenging to do in a text editor.

https://github.com/minad/osm

GitHub - minad/osm: :earth_africa: osm.el - OpenStreetMap viewer for Emacs

:earth_africa: osm.el - OpenStreetMap viewer for Emacs - minad/osm

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@art @jernej__s you may quit Google, but you’ll never quit vim.
@ajn142 @jernej__s Nobody knows how!

@art @ajn142 @jernej__s

Use these old tricks to exit vim, number 4 will SHOCK you...

@art Don't get that vimsical.
@art Sure. But can vim read and output an RSS feed?

@art

I don't believe this.
Now, if it was emacs ...

@art
I love Vim, but that will require a lot of acclimation. That's an observation, not a complaint.
@art infallible logic, there is no escaping this.
@art Hum... I prefer to use Emacs for those tasks actually.
Also my computer runs on GNU/Emacs because Linux is bloated
@art need a version of this where the last entry is Google Docs -> nano
@gsuberland @art there we go
@cinebox @gsuberland @art for beginners there is an excellent guide by @mwl
@ajn142 @cinebox @gsuberland @art @mwl I'm assuming @ed1conf already saw this

@loke

All over it like magnetized ferrous coating on reel-to-reel tape storage media.

@ajn142 @cinebox @gsuberland @art @mwl Neither nano(1) nor vi(1) are line editors, to begin with. I know that ex(1) is related, but I have never seen that one being used.
@art what if I need a logo that looks like a butthole
Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast [Colorized]

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@art I think it works better with emacs. 😝
@art oh yeah well helix better
#owned
/j
@art Hell, I replaced Google Photos with Vim ages ago, why's it taking everyone so long to keep up?
@art Not sure about VIM, but here is one that emacs can do that might save the U.S. All we have to do is to get Trump to (a) start emacs, (b) run the command ESC 32 META-X hanoi, and (c) wait for it to run to completion before doing anything else.
@art so you're telling me to move from the Google monopoly to the Vim monopoly? You must be kidding me 😜
@art ok, I just need a quick refresher on turn-by-turn navigation with vim on my phone

@art

Not yelling conspiracy or anything but when you Google 'Vim' predictive text changes it to 'Bum'

@art should have been emacs 
@art I just saw a chaotic good post... This is definitely chaotic evil

@art i love that post because i feel technically, the only thing Emacs wouldnt be good for is :

- Maps
- Authenticator app (and even then, i didnt look into that)
- Google Photos and the drive??

definitely keeping that post somewhere, to entertain my emacs brainrot 😈

@art Gmail → mutt; and so, vi(1)
Photos… good luck but well ImageMagick is a thing
Search… well vi(1) has regex
Chrome… IIRC the bloat of vim calls wget/curl if you pass an URL
Google Keep… WTF is that
as a Vim user I can confirm 👍
Emacs is an Operating System BTW😶

@art degoogling is rather ed(1) + mail + Internet, actually: https://edbrowse.org/

If you don’t know how to use ed(1), now this is a serious skill issue!

CC @ed1conf

Edbrowse, a Command Line Editor Browser

Edbrowse, a text based editor browser.

@art Instructions unclear, I have been stuck inside VIM for 2 weeks, they keep saying ZZ to quit but I don't see how a 70s rock band is going to help???

@art I'm a guy full of vim myself, but emacs can actually do most of this, and more!

You can replace mastodon with mastodon.el and so on...

@art though i think there's an emacs command that can do all that. C-x M-c M-degoogle...
@art Should be Emacs - cause that actually has almost all these functions