From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2024-04-12, D  wrote:   
   On Fri, 12 Apr 2024, Richmond wrote:   
   > I am using emacs/gnus in Mate Terminal on debian on a   
   > Dell laptop.   
      
   > Did you evolve your emacs use into a lifestyle and   
   > spiritual philosophy or is it only for gnus use?   
   >   
   > Every couple of years, I look into the *macs universe   
   > to see if I "get it", but so far after a few days of   
   > curiousity I always returned to vim or neovim. This years   
   > candidates were qemacs and jmacs and although light and   
   > snappy, I think I have way too much muscle memory in vim   
   > to ever be able to switch to something else.   
      
   I seem to be mind and muscle memory maxed out (MAMMMO!) on   
   tmux and vim keyboard bindings.   
      
   > Sometimes I feel like switching editors is a young mans   
   > game. ;)   
      
   It wasn't a fence I enjoyed straddling, eventually getting   
   honest about what meant the most to me in editing, vim won,   
   story over.   
      
   A teeny weeny little bit of me occasionally wishes I'd   
   gone the emacs way, because elisp. But it constantly   
   felt like a lot of additional typing. I need me a good   
   benefits:effort ratio.   
      
   And wasn't there some weirdness about the last character   
   of lines, or typed characters being inserted after the   
   cursor instead of before, or some such? I don't remember   
   what it was. But it caused the "Twilight Zone" theme to   
   play whenever encountering it. It was as though one had to   
   have a mind that thought *that* was a good idea in order   
   to buy into the rest.   
      
   But I could easily be mis-remembering, the victim of my   
   own internal history re-write, etc. This individuality   
   thing is *suuuuuuuuuch* a craps shoot....   
      
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