Mastodawn

Well fucking shit motherfuckers. Vim & Neovim are both contaminated with LLM slop.

I mean, I can just use ed. Or roll back Vim to an old version and never let it update? Fuck.

I do have a new Mac coming, so I could just commit to BBEdit, tho that's less optimal for code editor. Assuming siegel hasn't done something stupid?

Ha ha I could finally switch to emacs with vile binds and then NOTHING will work.

Fucking fuck darkest fucking timeline.
https://hachyderm.io/@AndrewRadev/116175986749599825
#vim #butlerianJihad

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Jyrgen N Mar 9

@mdhughes @cstross Homebrew has nvi. And Emacs, of course.

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Charlie Stross Mar 9

@jyrgenn @mdhughes Emacs, consistently over a 30 year period, has given me RSI *within a week* every time I've tried using it as my main editor. It was designed for a keyboard layout that no longer exists (outside weird homebrew builds).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard

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Jyrgen N

@cstross @mdhughes The space cadet isn’t even very good for using Emacs, with both Control and Meta close to each other on the bottom row. Imagine typing Control-Meta-S with that!

I learned using Emacs on LK201 and Sun Type 3/4 keyboards, which both worked well except for the missing Meta on the LK201. Never got into the habit of using Super or Hyper. Today I map Control to the Caps Lock key just to the left of A, where it makes sense, and let Emacs use the ⌘ key as Meta. Works fine.