A brief guide to Unix editors:

- vi is a trap
- vim is Stockholm syndrome with keybindings
- neovim is a lifestyle brand
- emacs is a religion
- nano is a cry for help
- micro is nano with imposter syndrome
- helix is TikTok vim
- kakoune is vim for people who hate vim

@fribbledom are there any good ones?

@fribbledom

- ed is the standard text editor

@jonbro

cat > foo.bar

@fribbledom which one do you recomend?

@fribbledom
- ed is for when your "screen" is a printer

@fribbledom @jonbro
ah yes, busybox's builtin editor

@fribbledom mcedit is 🤪

@fribbledom I had them all! My journey (so far)

nano -> vim -> kakoune -> micro -> helix -> emacs (evil) -> helix -> neovim -> vi

@fribbledom I fully believe in my Emacs religion

@fribbledom it warms my heart to see so many people mention ed. One and only ❤️

@fribbledom close! I would say:

- kakoune is vim for people who hate vim
- helix is vim for people who love vim and wish it worked

@fribbledom poor pico, not even a has-been

@fribbledom

100% accurate.

Elvis has left the building.

@fribbledom

cat > monolith.cpp

@fribbledom
We're doing JUST FINE and everything is GREAT here okay?!

...

please help i live in a cave

@fribbledom I just ask AI to write code. I don’t know what editor it uses.

@fribbledom I fall back to vi if none of the below exists even though that thing is 26 years older than me. I'm only 24, lol.

@fribbledom kwrite kasuals rise up

@fribbledom "ne" is for the Knights who say "Ni!"

@fribbledom on this list - Joe is missing as well as the combination of cat, echo and sed...

@fribbledom so, emacs then?

@fribbledom ed is the standard editor

@fribbledom
Proud vim user in Stockholm!
Stockholm is the best!

@fribbledom
The core use case for vi is hazing new CS students

@fribbledom And ed is @ed1conf :-) Text #format power!

@fribbledom AND ‘ed’ IS THE STANDARD EDITOR!!!

@fribbledom Praise be unto Emacs.

@fribbledom my vote is for Vi but, I also like mousepad. I like that it doesn't have anything.

@fribbledom Why would there be a need for "vim for people who hate vim" when the real thing ((n)vi) is right there?

Signed,
alias vi=nvi

@fribbledom
I just run notepad.exe through Wine

....that was a joke, stop hitting me

@fribbledom

Nano is a port of pico which died slowly as people moved away from PINE, the greatest MUA in history.

But vi is still better … and you could configure PINE to use vi as your primary *or* alternate editor …

@fribbledom - fresh is a haven for ordinary people

@silverwizard @fribbledom you've just successfully made me install edbrowse

I'm not sure I'll have time to go though the configuration file with ed this morning :(

@saucerlost @fribbledom why should anybody be hitting you, when you're already punishing yourself?

unless that's part of a kink scene you've negotiated with the people involved, of course, then go you!

@silverwizard @fribbledom XMPP. patch.

omg.