Team vim, team emacs, or team “my editor doesn’t start wars”? One line, no essays. Go!
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I tried Emacs for a while thee other year. It has a lot of the PIM apps Linux is really missing and I liked the "s-expression" motions but for the most part I didn't really like the editor.
I do prefer readline in Emacs mode though, everyone should learn that.
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what's wrong with the editor part? the only complaint I have is word-treatment, but that's on me, if I want I can customize it, but I'm lazy there.
I'm really out of the loop of modern ai coding tools, but I thought cursor was a separate IDE entirely
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creator of textlog:Cursor, as in cursor.com?
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"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyers:Yes. I pay 20$ just to have tab completion, it's really SOTA.
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creator of textlog:$20 one time, or $20/month? I never heard of Cursor before, first time.
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creator of textlog:I really prefer having qwen-coder for FITM completions on the laptop, gemma-4 on a local mac mini, and then open router for big per token models so I can swap them out.
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"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyers:Surprised you haven't heard of them, they recently got acquired for 60 billionTech JournalSpaceX Buys Cursor for $60B: What It Means (2026)SpaceX is acquiring Cursor maker Anysphere for $60 billion in stock — the biggest AI coding deal ever. Here's why, and what it means for developers. by SpaceX lol.
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creator of textlog:Ha! One more reason not to use it. 🤣
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"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyers:Type code manually like a caveman.
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creator of textlog:I wouldn’t go that far! There are others.
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I like Helix for how it balances a batteries-included approach but without feeling bloated. However, I find the keybindings to be a watered-down version of Kakoune; I feel like the Helix devs sort of missed the point of noun first.
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Thanks, I use a Kinesis Advantage 2 and it’s a big help. I’ve found avoiding holding down keys, with thumbs or otherwise, has been the biggest help.
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ouhh bet thats nice. im rocking some 50€ aliexpress print/pcb that i put some old switches/caps onto. legitimately impressed, best keyboard i ever used, never going back to traditional kbs.
i like micro. i have arrow keys bound to a layer beneath my homerow so i get a similar feel to vim without actually being modal, and i get to keep my normie shortcuts. not a big fan of ides, theres just too much going on for me
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Sublime Text, but I taught myself VS Code instead because it’s more popular and thus easier for pair work. But also I am a pragmatist, so whatever gets the job done and is installed.
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Vim has a better text editing experience, but Emacs is superior in every other way (customization, packages, file search, etc). So I suppose the answer is Emacs with evil-mode.
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I've always liked the vim philosophy and usually have vim keybindings no matter the editor I've used. So vim. But, I also frequently default to basic editor methods so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Vim. Feels like forever now; I was introduced to vim in -96 if memory serves. Over the years I tested others from time to time - but always went back. Now I’m old and it will be hard to move me over to anything else.
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Before vim, it was mostly emacs. And I kept using gnus for a long time - can’t remember now, but probably until the Gmail-age.
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My dad taught me how to use vim and I love my short .vimrc.
editor agnostic but always with vim mode/plugin :)
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Team “this war is a dumb psyop, let’s all be friends”
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Vim over here, though I'm not into editor wars, use what makes sense to you. Though if I were to start a war, I would be on Team Learn One Editor Extremely Deeply and Use it For Life. Although I guess "AI" has made that irrelevant for most people.
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retired programmer, new #ttrpgnotesfollow DM, learning Scottish Gaelicreplied to@sodapopcanprofilefollowMillenial/Xenial who used to be really excited about programming.:I feel exactly the same. When I was interviewing potential hires, I'd try to suss out how deeply they knew their editor (w/o caring what editor it was).
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nano
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editor agnostic here, work on many platforms. use jpico mostly.
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emacs (evil mode)
vim/neovim with vim keys everywhere else -- once you learn it text editing with any thing else feels slow
Team vim, it still works even in the worst internet connection. Saved my ass many times during emergencies.
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Team vscode with spacemacs bindings, but I kinda do wanna be team nvim in the future
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