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[-] juipeltje@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Try ~~VIM~~ Emacs instead of Nano ;)

[-] WereCat@lemmy.world 1 points 58 minutes ago* (last edited 57 minutes ago)

Well after doing some research and trying VIM and EMACS for a bit. I already know that I don't want to use VIM over nano because the features I want neither of them has so it's pointless to even start learning using VIM and nano is sufficient for the basic stuff but EMACS does have the features. However EMACS is just too much... It's like I want to crop an image so I download Blender. The thing is too scary to even start with and needs so much customization just to get me started that I just don't have the energy to attempt it at once with NixOS.

So I've decided to pick up Helix again after all because it also has the features I'm after and needs very little setup to start learning to use it.

[-] nutcase2690@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago

Can also try helix! I think there is another one called kakoune but I haven't followed that for a long time

[-] bradboimler@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

The one editor that pulled me away from Vim. Didn't think that was possible.

[-] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

If you use Helix, use the nightly version from their flake since it has like a year's worth of updates compared to the last release. Or use Steelix if you want early access to plugin support.

[-] juipeltje@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah Helix is cool. I was using it before i switched to Emacs.

[-] WereCat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've already tried Helix quite a while ago. I went trough the entire bult-in tutorial and then never touched it again because I had no reason to back then. I'd have to start everything from scratch which is why I want to try something else now.

[-] WereCat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I know enough to know that this is blue vs red situation but not enough to know why. But your comment will likely make a war in this post soon :D

[-] juipeltje@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Haha, yeah i'm just goofing around, but at the end of the day, just choose what is most interesting to you. It's kind of ironic how i got into Emacs anyway, cause before that i chose to use Helix instead of NVIM, cause i didn't want to bother spending so much time configuring it. Then i tried Guix, which is a distro that you configure in Guile Scheme, so Emacs felt like the perfect fit for that, but in the end i still spent hours configuring my Emacs lol.

[-] littleomid@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Lives have been lost in this war, but you’d be crazy to think that Emacs is not the superior editor. (Half /s)

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