:q! this meme, man
You forgot to his escape twice first. You’re in insert mode sir.
More like <esc><esc><esc><esc><esc><esc><esc><esc>… Just in case
Real nerds use Ctrl [ instead so they don’t leave home row.
That meme clearly comes from an emacs fanboy.
emacs
I actually don’t know what emacs means. I only remember having struggles in understanding anyone who likes vim, because it mostly just confused me. But Probably its just what you are used to. The Meme is still funny, though.
For my vim journey it was the draw of being able to quickly navigate and manipulate text without ever needing my hands to move away from the home row on the keyboard, and being willing to put in the time and effort to push past the learning curve.
vim is a little hard to get into, but from there its benefits pay off with lots of features. On the other hand there is emacs, with an even steeper learning curve (*cough* long inconvenient button combos!), but it’s considered so powerful, some say it’s a separate operating system.
emacs has a steeper learning curve? You can
M-x <type stuff> tabto figure out how to do stuff, which is easier than Vim for learning IMO:help <type stuff> tab
It’s much harder, you’re right! :P
It comes from the words “Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping”.
Yeah, the name hasn’t aged well…
It’s about 80MB on my machine right now… What is an absurd amount of memory for an empty editor, but I had to sort top by process name because there are some 10 pages of stuff that reserve no memory at all, 2 where it goes from non-zero to 100MB, and a fucking lot of pages of stuff using more than 100MB.
WTF is my computer doing with all that?
Just keeping a single frame buffer image can take tens of megabytes nowadays, so 100MB isn’t all that much. Also 64-bit can easily double the memory consumption, given how pointer-happy the ELISP data structures can be (this is somewhat based on my assumptions, I don’t actually know the memory layouts of the different Emacs data structures ;)).
But I don’t truly know, though. If I start a terminal-only Emacs without any additional lisp code it takes “only” 59232 kilobytes of resident memory. Still more than I’d expect. I’d expect something like 2 MB. But I’ll survive.
Don’t discount the possibility that some people that use vim, are old enough to remember using vi, over a modem connection. When you know the keyboard shortcuts it can be a lot quicker too even now.
Vi is incredibly snappy when it came to commands.
Want to save? :w
Want to quit? :q
Want to save and quit? :wq
Very elegant. GUI WYSIWYG doesn’t come close when it comes to commands.
Man, this comment made me feel a little embarrassed at myself. I saw the shortcuts and thought about how I have a tradition of going to the top of the file when I’m done editing and about to save/quit. I always hit the shortcut for it and think “gg boys! Good game” and then quit out of vim.
Stop judging me.
The editor so good people never learn to leave it.
Take my angry upvote
My entire first year as a network student was a Bernie meme: “i am once again asking, how do i exit vim?”
I litterally LOL’d! :D
Out of curiosity, I wondered what the original meme was. Found them and thought I’d share them:
Here’s the original: https://i.imgur.com/kERuZkW.jpg
And here’s the one that this is based off (slightly different): https://i.imgur.com/HFwENsd.png
BTW, just in case you didn’t know, you can put images directly in your comment with this:
I didn’t know that, will use in the future. Thanks!
Well well !!
Neovim is awesome
vim is so last year. have you people heard of GitHub’s new ‘Atom’ IDE? I think it’ll be the next big thing 😊
An IDE written in Electron?? What a terrible idea! Nobody would ever be stupid enough to let something like that take off…
Vim keys in vscode for the win, I’m dead serious
They give us their ‘cures’ (neovim) while they suppress our medicine (emacs)
I legit code in nano.
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Whewf I’m boutta out myself or something, but …
after 15 years of vim, writing (and contributing to) a host of plugins, even running custom builds with my own patches …
I basically never boot up Actual Vim anymore?? I’ve basically entirely switched to VScode + VSCodeVim. embarrassing as fuck, in some ways, but jesus christ it’s just too goddamn good.
The neovim integration, even, was fantastic. (Although I don’t use it right now, for “VSCode Remote reasons,” lol.)
I’m thinking of switching from VSC to VIM because VSC is too hungry for ressources.
I avoid to open some monorepo projects because it takes too much time and I use the Github explorer to navigate in the project.
What on earth size of monorepo is that!? iirc, we’ve got ~1Mloc of OCaml, probably another two or three times that in assorted generated code, specs, config, infra, and other languages; and my VScode-Remote definitely boots up as fast as the network connection can stand up.
Definitely faster than I can think of the first thing I want to do … ¯_(ツ)_/¯
That said, I should own up to having had an absurdly overcomplicated vim config, tons of plugins, a decade n change of customizations and patches and shit. Maybe I’ve just always had a high tolerance for a slow boot. hahaha
It’s a monorepo for around 30 micro frontend projects (Vue.js / Angular / Svelte mostly) + some libraries packages.
I don’t know what is the number of LoC but it’s medium sized frontend projects (we are ~100 developpers on this projects)
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In a moment of weakness I configured the Visual Studio to use Vim as input method and now I don’t know how to change it back.
I’m sad to say I fell for this trap as well! Wanted to keep using vim, but I’m too old to put so much effort in maintaining my tools, when I have a self-cleaning swissknife … just… right… there.
I went to a Data and AI conference and in one of the breakout sessions, there was a guy literally taking notes in Vim.
Absolute madness!
