jiinissi, 9 months ago

@array lolz. I wouldn't have understood had I not switched to Helix about a year ago.

M-x butterfly was more my thing until then.

array, 9 months ago

@jiinissi "Dammit, Emacs". We are at a point where we can get obscure xkcd and modal text editors references; I don't know, but maybe we should begin to worry. XD

dcbaok, 9 months ago

@array somewhat before my time but I think in '91 this would more likely have been vi than vim?

array, 9 months ago

@dcbaok Most likely, yes (I just checked again and the first vim public release was exactly a month after this comic-book was published). That's why I wrote a generic "modal text editing" (my bet was the comic book reference could be pointing to vi), but included the vim reference as a paradigmatic (but far from only) example used today. :)