Why would a fly land on something like this?

That meme clearly comes from an emacs fanboy.

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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.

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- 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.
  
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- 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.
  
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- What's even more crazy is when you've used vim exclusively for 30 years to the point where you sit down at someone else's computer and you try to use their editor and you are completely lost. You fumble around like you're an elderly person who doesn't know what a computer is, type random letters all over. You look senile.
  
  But then you show them on your computer how you can record a macro of your key commands and then use a regex to match different blocks of similar text and apply the same commands all at once. And because you used navigation based on words and lines rather than characters it all just works.
  
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- It comes from the words "Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping".
  
  Yeah, the name hasn't aged well..
  
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- 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.
  
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- Nvim user so imo it would be funnier if it was about getting caught up in spending more time customising the editor than using it or something, but atm just reads like someone who only got as far as opening vim and not being able to figure out how to close it
  
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:q! this meme, man

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You forgot to his escape twice first. You're in insert mode sir.

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- More like <esc><esc><esc><esc><esc><esc><esc><esc>... Just in case
  
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- META-c. My hands on meta and ESC is all the way over there
  
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- Real nerds use Ctrl [ instead so they don't leave home row.
  
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ZZ, more often than not.

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- :q!<CR> is equivalent to ZQ
  
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The editor so good people never learn to leave it.

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Take my angry upvote

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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

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BTW, just in case you didn't know, you can put images directly in your comment with this:

![alt text (optional)](image url)

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- I didn’t know that, will use in the future. Thanks!
  
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Both of those are also true. Add in one with Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, Threads...

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vim is so last year. have you people heard of GitHub's new 'Atom' IDE? I think it'll be the next big thing 😊

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An IDE written in Electron?? What a terrible idea! Nobody would ever be stupid enough to let something like that take off...

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Vim keys in vscode for the win, I'm dead serious

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Neovim is awesome

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alias vim='sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root'

You ought to be punished for your transgressions

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- That prompts in most modern distros. You should pipe it to sshpass.
  
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I've been using Linux professionally for a couple of decades and using it altogether since like 1996. I never knew about the timeout command. I'm gonna have some fun with that.

I wonder if I can set someone's shell to it...

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- Always -k. Ask nicely but unsheathe the katana, just in case.
  
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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.

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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.

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My entire first year as a network student was a Bernie meme: "i am once again asking, how do i exit vim?"

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I litterally LOL'd! :D

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I legit code in nano.

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- Ah, a fellow masochist.
  
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But why?

Did you start with busybox and just decide to stay there?

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Like, often?

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Wait there's nano? I've been using ed. /jk

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Op, we have decided to go with a different candidate

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I can quit whenever I like. I just don't want to eyes shifting nervously

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They give us their ‘cures’ (neovim) while they suppress our medicine (emacs)

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Are you looking to break the fragile peace we have? :%s/polle/fellow-vim-user/gc

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Well well !!

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.. the cleaning paste?

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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!

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I do it all the time. 🤪

I can navigate and organize my own notes 10 times faster than if I used most alternatives, especially with plugins like Neorg that support visually distinct markup output via concealer configs. There's even a presentation mode.

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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.)

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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.

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- 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
  
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It's a trap!

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