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I watched oppenheimer in emacs, u watched it in imax, we are not the same

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

eMacs takes a life time to learn, so the sooner you start, the longer it will take.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Too bad Emacs doesn’t have a good text editor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Emacs is the GOAT computing environment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I couldn't help but think of Emacs when I was reading A Constructive Look At TempleOS. It's like TempleOS that is actually finished, it just lacks kernel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

just lacks kernel.

Sounds like a trademark of GNU tbh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

GNU Hurd is going to be mainstream any minute now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing. I have never seen that deep dive into templeOS before and it is a much more interesting OS than I anticipated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's pretty amazing system all things considered. It's kind of as if 8-bit home computer systems continued to evolve, but keep the same principles of being really closely tied to the HW and with very blurry line between kernel and user space. It radiates strong user ownership of the system. If you look at modern systems where you sometimes don't even get superuser privileges (for better of worse) it's quite a contrast.

Which is why it reminds me of Emacs so much. You can mess with most of the internals, there's no major separation between "Emacs-space" and userspace. There are these jokes about Emacs being OS, but it really does remind me of those early days of home computing where you could tinker with low level stuff and there were no guardrails or locks stopping you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm sure the port to TempleOS is being worked on as we speak

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Late 30s dev here: I've never cared to learn emacs or vim, tried when younger, but left it. Am I a fraud?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to be a vim fan but now I only use it for modifying files over SSH. Other than that I code with an IDE, you can't beat all the plugins and linters with a in-terminal editor. A colleague still codes in emacs and its code is dirty af.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A colleague still codes in emacs and its code is dirty af.

PEBKAC - don't blame emacs (not sure why anyone would use it when vim exists, though)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was another Twitler who tried to create an everything Reich.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Elon is racing him to see who can collapse a thousand-year social media platform the fastest

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's an iMac with electronics in it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Surely Elon would prefer the old Lucid fork, https://www.xemacs.org/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

An extremely extensible text editor, there's jokes that it can do literally anything, you can play music, watch video, etc.

It's often at war with the cult of vi and the church of emacs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You should really convert to helixism, the latest messianic update to the cult of vi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm a vim and emacs user for some decades already. I had this urge one day to try and work with helix. It kind of misses some things such as file manager or editorconfig support. Nine months later I'm still using helix. It still misses these things, but I really started to like how I don't need any plugins to work with it and I need about five lines of configuration to have a usable editor. Probably going to continue using it.

And it is written in Rust, which is my main language and I can just jump in to the editor source and fix things if needed.

I miss magit and org from emacs a lot though. Every time I need to write an article, I do it in emacs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's probably this, for all of you whou didn't know Helix before, like me: https://helix-editor.com/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget us nanoites. The clearly superior text editor

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

nanoers just never figured out how to :wq

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

:x? Real Programmers use ZZ.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But what if you wanted to write even if there weren't changes?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then you use :wq

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Upvote just for "melon husk" 😂