vi or emacs?
vi or emacs?
I think the possible valid answers are: "vi", "emacs", "both", "seriously it's 2024", and " huh?"
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I learnt Emacs years ago, it's very helpful to the day-to-day terminal use, however if I could go back I would learn Vi instead, it's better for pinky strain.
I really wish more text editors being actively developed in the present day would take advantage of the IBM CUA standard that has been embraced by Windows and (Desktop) Linux since basically the early 1990s.
Interesting, I'd never heard of that before today!
The 'general' package has basically fixed that for me:
https://github.com/noctuid/general.elMakes it pretty simple to swap out most common emacs shortcuts for much more ergonomic alternatives.