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submitted 9 months ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] teft@piefed.social 20 points 9 months ago (5 children)

vim is all i need and is all i’ll ever need.

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[–] LorIps@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Emacs* is bloatware

Vims just bloat on ed

ed is the only answer.

Our true salvation

*being an acronym for "Eight Megabytes And Currently Swapping"

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

You can't spare 8 meg? I have games that want 8 gig

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[–] LorIps@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I have 16 Megs of RAM. I'm not going to waste 50% of it on a damn text editor.

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

But what if you don't get it?

Ed. /s

(Except actually I guess that could happen)

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[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone [S] 1 point 9 months ago

vim is for people who want to see the file they are editing

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