Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux

On Thu, 20 Nov 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 22:11:42 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
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Both vi and emacs live in a different planet than I do.

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vi definitely lives someplace else in the solar system than vim or gVim.
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The choice was easy back when disk space was at a premium. iirc, gVim took
around 2 MB, and emacs took over 20 MB. Of course gVim didn't tell your
fortune, play go, or require keyboard maneuvers equivalent to playing B7
on a guitar.
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This old classic comes to mind:
Regexing with several editors:
acme:

Oh, | want to execute a regular expression on my text here.
Here | go.
| take my mouse hand off my keys.
| move my mouse hand to my mouse
I grip the mouse with my mouse hand
| move the mouse to the tag strip on top of the editing buffer
I click the tag strip
| release the mouse
| move my mouse hand to the keys
| write the regex
| take my mouse hand off the keys
| move my mouse hand to my mouse
I grip the mouse and press da butans
| drag the mouse over the regex to highlight it
| release da butans
| watch as my regex hopefully does what it needs to do on the first try.
I move the mouse to the editing buffer to continue inputting text
| release the mouse
| move my mouse hand to the keys
| FINALLY start typing again.

Emacs:

press both foot pedals
press meta shift control sysrq
play the moonlight sonata on the two extra leopards while requesting

Regex-Mode with the headstick.

hit the electric cymbals strapped under my arm and while putting the

shift-stick | have gripped tightly with my sphincter into turbo mode.

signal my two assistants to turn their keys in unison, NOW!
input the regex
release all keys and watch as emacs gracefully rearranges the text

vim:

escape or equivalent
: %s/foo/bar/g
enter
continue editing