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mid_kid<p>The :Sex command in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vim</span></a> is actually rather useful.</p>
Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@chesheer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>chesheer</span></a></span> IMO people have lost the ability to discuss topics in a non-personal fashion. Factual level vs. personal level.</p><p>Nowadays, the tendency that any discussion results in personal insults is very high.</p><p>Besides: since <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Emacs</span></a> is able to do everything(!) that <a href="https://graz.social/tags/vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vim</span></a> 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. 😈 </p><p><a href="https://graz.social/tags/editorwars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>editorwars</span></a></p>
VimLinks<p>Some convenient completion-related features have been making their way into Vim via PRs. Check out a summary in this reddit post: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/1m9mr2v/whats_new_in_vim_insert_mode_autocomplete_and/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reddit.com/r/vim/comments/1m9m</span><span class="invisible">r2v/whats_new_in_vim_insert_mode_autocomplete_and/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vim</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/vim9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vim9</span></a></p>
NegativePrimes<p>Browsing the Vim help documents on mapping and unmapping key commands, and ran across this unexpected comment:</p><p>":nunmap can also be used outside of a monastery."</p><p><a href="https://urusai.social/tags/vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vim</span></a> <a href="https://urusai.social/tags/GetTheeToANunnery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GetTheeToANunnery</span></a></p>
Darren<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@twt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>twt</span></a></span> I think it gets a liquid glass makeover? no ? <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vim</span></a></p>
Zimer<p>Do you guys use AI plugins in Neovim?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vim</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Neovim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Neovim</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unix</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a></p>
veer66<p>Vim is great, but it may not be the minimal text editor you were inspired to use from '80s memes. You might want to try nvi instead. <a href="https://mstdn.in.th/tags/vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vim</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.in.th/tags/vi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vi</span></a></p>
Paul Kater<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mementomori.social/@rolle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rolle</span></a></span> Last week I saw a colleague struggle to exit vim and save a file.</p><p>It hurt.</p><p>ZZ<br>or<br>:wq</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vim</span></a></p>
Nikolay Robotoev 🥞🎙️<p>Vim mode in editors is like non-alcoholic beer - not a real thing. I switched from VS Code to neovim using Lunar Vim (as I understand, it’s a preset of configurations and plugins that you can keep tweaking further but it’s a good starting point).<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vim</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vscode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vscode</span></a></p>
Yavo<p>Top comment I've read today:</p><p>"Emacs takes a lifetime to learn. So the earlier you start, the longer it will take you."</p><p>Credit: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@evilenx" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>evilenx</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vim</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/jokes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jokes</span></a></p>
John-Mark Gurney<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@scy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>scy</span></a></span></p><p>My idle/thinking command is jobs to see what vi editor sessions I need to fg to continue working on what I was doing.</p><p><a href="https://flyovercountry.social/tags/Vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vim</span></a> <a href="https://flyovercountry.social/tags/bash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bash</span></a> <a href="https://flyovercountry.social/tags/CLI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CLI</span></a> <a href="https://flyovercountry.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a></p>
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<p>Learned a couple neat <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/nvim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nvim</span></a> tricks from your <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/blost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blost</span></a>, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://lazybear.social/@hyde" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>hyde</span></a></span>!</p><p>The way you set up your notes script is somewhat similar to my journalling script, except that mine is just plain bash with no fun vim tricks. ;)</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@orbitalmartian" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>orbitalmartian</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/neovim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeoVim</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vim</span></a></p>
Toby<p>I’m moving back to Vim. </p><p>Unsurprised to have forgotten almost all muscle memory.</p><p>I’m starting my .vimrc from scratch because frankly the one I had was a bit of a Frankenstein’s monster. </p><p>I’m also manually handling plugins instead of going via a toolkit.</p><p>Trying to ease into it slowly and deliberately. </p><p>:wq </p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vim</span></a></p>
Jay 🆘<p>I think I have to switch <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vim</span></a> completion plugins soon. Choosing between nvim-cmp and vimcomplete, probably gonna go with nvim-cmp. This is gonna be like a whole Saturday afternoon project.</p>
mr_daemon<p>This is actually good?</p><p>It sure beats vimtutor. If you've been meaning to pick up vim but always put it off due to the learning cliff, this could be the way</p><p><a href="https://www.vim-hero.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">vim-hero.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://untrusted.website/tags/vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vim</span></a> <a href="https://untrusted.website/tags/vi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vi</span></a></p>
Roni Laukkarinen<p>This is actually amazing.</p><p>VimHero teaches you how to edit code using Vim with interactive examples, challenges, and games. <a href="https://www.vim-hero.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">vim-hero.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/Vi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vi</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/Vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vim</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/Coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coding</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/Editor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Editor</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/VimHero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VimHero</span></a></p>
hairylarry<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ieji.de/@vnikolov" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>vnikolov</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@tusharhero" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tusharhero</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@evgandr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>evgandr</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://appdot.net/@mdhughes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mdhughes</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>screwlisp</span></a></span> </p><p>For me the one true editor was a dos program, qedit.</p><p>When I went to Linux I chose gedit as the most functionally equivalent to qedit even if it didn't have the feature set. When gedit lost it's way I followed pluma down the fork.</p><p>I am learning Emacs as an IDE for common lisp. My guru is <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>screwlisp</span></a></span> and I am trying to understand his document. </p><p><a href="https://screwlisp.small-web.org/fundamental/installing-lisp-etc/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">screwlisp.small-web.org/fundam</span><span class="invisible">ental/installing-lisp-etc/</span></a></p><p>I am totally uninterested in the vim/emacs wars.</p><p><a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vim</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/commonlisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commonlisp</span></a></p>
scy 🔜 WHY<p>Sure, you can install a huge Vim plugin to help you format Markdown tables. Or, if you're like me and would like to keep your list of plugins short, and have <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Pandoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pandoc</span></a> installed anyway (because it rocks), you can simply do</p><p>setlocal formatprg=pandoc\ --from\ gfm\ --to\ gfm</p><p>in your ftplugin/markdown.vim, and then simply hit</p><p>gqip</p><p>("format interior of current paragraph") to reformat the messy table you're currently editing.</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vim</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Neovim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Neovim</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Markdown</span></a></p>
Eugene :emacs: :freebsd:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://appdot.net/@mdhughes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mdhughes</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://gamerplus.org/@hairylarry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>hairylarry</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>screwlisp</span></a></span> </p><p>"Copy-paste"? Never heard about this. Is this some jargon name for "kill-yank"? :dragnthinkhappy: </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vim</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/vi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vi</span></a></p>
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://gamerplus.org/@hairylarry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>hairylarry</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>screwlisp</span></a></span> Note:<br>vi foo.lisp<br>hjkl move the cursor.<br>i goes into insert mode.<br>ESC (the key) leaves insert mode. Go ahead and hit it a couple times so it beeps, that's how you know you're in command mode.<br>:w to write.<br>:wq to write &amp; quit.<br>Can you guess how to quit without writing? :q!</p><p>You now have more productivity than emacs!<br><a href="https://appdot.net/tags/vi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vi</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vim</span></a> <a href="https://appdot.net/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a></p>
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