I’m not a vimmer lol, but with reading comprehension like yours I think I can understand where your skill issue comes from

Oh you’re just mad at how much power it puts in the hands of the user. Yeah it has a steep learning curve but these text editors (for reference I use emacs) are more like power tools. There are so many different areas where they get used it’s impossible to build a one-size fits all solution. Do you see how many different sawbenches there are? This is like that.

What if I have to, typeset math, write some auxiliary python code and keep notes? Well I need a text editor that is fundamentally different from someone a kernel hacker.

I’m for sure not gonna switch between Writer and some python IDE and another notes taking app, that’s just the same learning effort spread over different apps.

What specifically is bad about it?

For the basics the tutorial that comes with stock emacs is GOAT. You navigate the tutorial in the program you’re learning the navigation in, that’s how I learned it. It covers the basics, moving, killing/yanking (cutting/pasting), moving the view without moving the point (the cursor), handling buffers (open files), windows (subframes in the emacs window) and frames (multiple emacs windows). There is a bit of a translation required as emacs is old and some terms come from a time before the concepts were in common english but it’s nothing really. I’m rather new to emacs as well, and this is how I learnt it.

After that what I found most useful was the following packages

(require 'use-package)
(require 'diminish)
(require 'bind-key)

(use-package eldoc)

(use-package which-key
  :bind ("M-H" . which-key-show-top-level)
  :init (which-key-mode t)
  :config (which-key-setup-side-window-right-bottom))

(use-package marginalia :init (marginalia-mode))

(use-package embark :bind ("C-<return>" . embark-act)
  :custom (prefix-help-command #'embark-prefix-help-command))

(use-package embark-consult
  :hook (embark-collect-mode consult-preview-at-point-mode))

This binds Alt+H to show all the keys available (use Ctrl+h n to scroll) as well as automatically pops up a buffer when you entered a command that isn’t complete, e.g. Ctrl+x. And it binds Ctrl+Return to a kind of right-click menu that tries to guess at all the actions you could do with the thing you have at under the point.

But most useful, is Ctrl+h f to describe what a function does and Ctrl+h v to describe what a variable does as well as the customize menu Alt+x customize.

For a theme I would suggest one of ef-themes but that’s up to you ofcourse.

Emacs is a bit daunting to set up but I’m really loving it. See also https://github.com/SystemCrafters/crafted-emacs/tree/master for some ideas for how to set up some other stuff, although I went with the stock completions.

There are also non-emacs ways of interacting with org files https://orgmode.org/tools.html but I don’t know anything about them.

Orgmode!!

They’re not making money off these bots though.

Fuck nix and anduril, go guix!

If she was around the same cs students as me then yeah

Sucks that nix has gone fash-mode though

Complaining without an alternative or a solution is not productive, IMO

“If you don’t have an alternative shut up and don’t fight the nazis getting funded”

Yes obviously lol

edit: this transphobe’s been banned from blahaj so I can’t reply if they do

“Why are all these people calling me a nazi, I just think nazi’s should receive funding is all!”+

👍

None of those are extremist though 😔

Funny how that just keeps on happening?! Why can’t we have left-wing extremism ever be profitable 😤

The opinion being debated: “is transphobia bad?”

completely ignores that its about the donations and not “just” using their software.

Theyre not gonna, look at all the comments itt that are ok with giving money to transphobes

literally how fascists make their money

See also: javascript and Eich

Found the CloudFactory!