During lunch a friend mentioned that you can just supply a HTTP URL to vim on the command line and it would use curl to download that resource and allow you to edit the content. I jokingly asked whether if you enter :w it would then issue a HTTP POST back to the origin which is of course ridiculous.
I haven’t been able to find all the right groups of people on the fediverse. And this makes me sad. I follow a group of people in my field of work and a large # of people in the Apple development ecosystem.
Using #vim is easy once you learn a few basic keybindings.
h and l - move left and right
j and k - move down and up
η and λ - move backwards and forwards through time
ξ and κ - translation through additional temporal dimension (if applicable)
ᚻ, ᛄ, ᚳ and ᛚ - moving left, down, up, and right through celestial spheres
𐤄 and 𐤋 - switch deity to pantheon member to left or right
𐤉 - supplicate to chosen deity
𐤊 - challenge chosen deity (dangerous)
:q - exit
I love this quote. Can't seem to find the original author to give attribution where due:
#vim is immortal in the nokia brick-phone sense. It's got very few dependencies, it'll survive a drop from a ten foot pole and it's cooperative with like thirty year old technology. It's fast and ergonomic and once armageddon comes you'll shell into the flaming wreckage of a datacenter and edit configs with it. Pure embodiment of the strength and certainty of steel.
#emacs, by contrast, is immortal in the shambling fleshbeast sense. Its thousand thralls write beautiful evocations to pull domains you never could have wanted or imagined from its flesh. It grows cancerously to envelop any domain, any need you may want from it. You can tear out its heart and swap it, still-beating, for a new one. It embodies the ultimate desire to survive. It can send email.
I just read that Bram Moolenar, creator of #vim, has died.
He improved the world's fastest text editor with so many features that it's still among the best out there to this day, and I don't know of any modern text-editor that's faster for general use.
Bram Moolenaar, creator of #Vim, passed away on August 3rd. The announcement comes from his family on Google Groups and it's from a few hours ago. He will be missed by the huge community of Vim users.
I always told people that #texlatex is best written/edited in #emacs but didn't have a better argument for it than how well everything integrates. #AUCTeX, pdf-tools, #magit, etc. make it a seamless experience. I had a little bit of YASnippets going as well which made life wonderful.
That already brought things to the state of Gilles Castel's 2019 latex lecture notes in #vim article (which I believe is famous, at least in these circles). But yesterday I found a blog post by @karthink about how to get that and more in Emacs.
The very first demo (40 seconds) shows how to get an equation in latex that I am sure would take me over a minute to write by hand (and it would look ugly in comparison). Then I looked at the second video (45 seconds) and realized that somehow org table style editing can be used for things like matrices and arrays and what not.
Just like that, less than 2 minutes has me committed to getting all that functionality in my Emacs config. Of course, this being emacs, I can tailor it all precisely to my comfort and I'm willing to spend however long is needed to get it to that stage.
RIP Bram Moolenaar, the author of vim text editor (groups.google.com)
Here is a message from his family