The venerable text editor feels timeless and timely in the age of AI and enshittification. A novelist argues that it is perhaps because Emacs is the embodiment of FOSS ideals
  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    As a decades long Vim user, this article made me consider looking at emacs again. I’m interested in learning more of the nitty gritty of his implementation than the broad over view given here.

    • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      I’ve never used it. I like VIM a great deal, but there’s certainly room for improvement. Emacs would be a big change and I’m scared. I’m constantly learning about my system and how to do things, and I don’t know if I have brain space to learn a new text editor too.