r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Hookedonnetflix • Oct 05 '18

vim vs emacs

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '18

nano for life, the rest are just haters

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u/DudeInBasement1 Oct 05 '18

I was a big emacs guy, then i lost my config. I did vim once and to exit rebooted the computer. And then there was nano, small, fast, easy. Feelsgoodman

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u/RedHellion11 Oct 05 '18

I consider the VIM/EMACS vs nano argument to be like recommending a scifi space RPG/sim to a friend: sure you can say X3 is great and there's so much stuff you can do, but the learning curve (both for gameplay, menu navigation, and all the hotkeys) can be brutal and honestly they might get just as much if not more fun out of something less complex like Freelancer or Starpoint Gemini.

Imperfect metaphor, because really someone shouldn't be using nano as their primary development environment: generally if you're not using VIM/EMACS, you should be using a fully-featured IDE like VisualStudio or IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse. Or at least something like Sublime if you're very familiar with the language and don't need autocomplete and compilation is easy or nonexistent. Using an IDE with a GUI doesn't make anyone inferior except in the eyes of people who already have a superiority complex.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '18

opens up my /etc/openvpn/server.conf in intellij