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10 points by hncel 4 years ago

PaulHoule 4 years ago |

I noticed "... because anyone using Vim should always disable all the defaults and begin with a clean slate in their vimrc file" and thought that one of the major reasons why I switched away from emacs towards vi-family editors is that you can log into an arbitrary Linux machine, possibly with a damaged operating system, and have a good chance of "vi" just working.

Contrast that with being emacs dependent and having to install emacs w/ the package manager which might have a corrupted database... and not having a text editor to use while you are fixing the corrupted package manager database.

From the viewpoint of a developer I can understand the desire for customability but from the viewpoint of a sysadmin there is something towards being comfortable in whatever barren environment you find yourself in.

kklimonda 4 years ago |

I can't really tell if this is some sort of satire, or a serious post I should actually put some thought into...

jamal-kumar 4 years ago | |

"The first thing any responsible NeoVim user or advocate should say to any beginner is, "Do NOT learn NeoVim until you have mastered vi and then vim first" but obviously they never do that. Instead, they blindly seek to corrupt an entire generation of new terminal users causing them to mistake this horrible alpha software --- that's internally closer to Roblox than Linux --- as a thing they call Vim. It's just not."

I mean if they both run on Lua he's not wrong

tjoff 4 years ago |

Is this satire? In any case it is so low quality I really doubt it has any place here. Though maybe a proper discussion can be had in comments instead.

autophagian 4 years ago |

I like neovim and enjoy using it. To be fair though, like the author suggests, I am unemployable and terrible.

webscalist 4 years ago |

I like emacs

hprotagonist 4 years ago | |

in which case, s/neovim/doom/g and i'm sure you've heard this screed before...