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[-] four@lemmy.zip 57 points 1 week ago

What if my PC boots straight into Vim? It's not like I need anything else, can do everything in Vim

[-] enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago

Jokes aside, vim as PID 1 is just a bad idea.

Emacs on the other hand: https://github.com/emacs-os/el-init

[-] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago

That's a great idea from GitHub user el-sloppo and Claude.

[-] A7thStone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Did you read the retrospective.md

[-] Cevilia 9 points 1 week ago
[-] A7thStone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Then you obviously didn't read it.

[-] Cevilia 2 points 1 week ago

Yes. That's literally what I said.

[-] enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

To be fair, I’ve seen this done a long time before LLM slopped everything, but I think they ran emacs as PID2 in that variation.

Anyway, good luck doing it in vimscript.

[-] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago

That settles it. Emacs is better than Vim

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I bet this comment actually pissed off some people. Lol

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago
[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago
[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

As discovered by plyth, you can't do anything anymore. There are limits

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Seeing you reply made me click the link, where is my beloved! At least the new owners want to keep it Zombo.

[-] Cevilia 3 points 1 week ago
[-] mghackerlady@leminal.space 3 points 1 week ago

Can vim be pid-1? No? emacs can B)

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