From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Sat, 13 Apr 2024, oldernow wrote:   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   Oh yes, that muscle memory can be quite painful if it is not accompanied   
   with the usual action.   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   For me it was pretty easy. At university the teacher of computer science   
   preferred emacs, so that's what we used, however, I worked extra as a   
   system administrator, and before attending university, I was always a   
   terminal man, so vim was there by default, so vim it was.   
      
   Then, what propelled vim from a 50/50 choice to a 100/0 choice was 6   
   months of downtime at a global consulting company (worst job I ever had)   
   and I thought to myself, let's fill this garbage job with something   
   useful, so for the next 6 months I went from ok to great in vim. Never   
   looked back after that. And increased vim knowledge was the best thing   
   with that crap job in the end. ;)   
      
   > 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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