That meme clearly comes from an emacs fanboy.
emacs
I actually don’t know what emacs means. I only remember having struggles in understanding anyone who likes vim, because it mostly just confused me. But Probably its just what you are used to. The Meme is still funny, though.
vim is a little hard to get into, but from there its benefits pay off with lots of features. On the other hand there is emacs, with an even steeper learning curve (*cough* long inconvenient button combos!), but it’s considered so powerful, some say it’s a separate operating system.
It comes from the words “Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping”.
Yeah, the name hasn’t aged well…
It’s about 80MB on my machine right now… What is an absurd amount of memory for an empty editor, but I had to sort top by process name because there are some 10 pages of stuff that reserve no memory at all, 2 where it goes from non-zero to 100MB, and a fucking lot of pages of stuff using more than 100MB.
WTF is my computer doing with all that?
Just keeping a single frame buffer image can take tens of megabytes nowadays, so 100MB isn’t all that much. Also 64-bit can easily double the memory consumption, given how pointer-happy the ELISP data structures can be (this is somewhat based on my assumptions, I don’t actually know the memory layouts of the different Emacs data structures ;)).
But I don’t truly know, though. If I start a terminal-only Emacs without any additional lisp code it takes “only” 59232 kilobytes of resident memory. Still more than I’d expect. I’d expect something like 2 MB. But I’ll survive.
Nvim user so imo it would be funnier if it was about getting caught up in spending more time customising the editor than using it or something, but atm just reads like someone who only got as far as opening vim and not being able to figure out how to close it
For my vim journey it was the draw of being able to quickly navigate and manipulate text without ever needing my hands to move away from the home row on the keyboard, and being willing to put in the time and effort to push past the learning curve.
Don’t discount the possibility that some people that use vim, are old enough to remember using vi, over a modem connection. When you know the keyboard shortcuts it can be a lot quicker too even now.
Vi is incredibly snappy when it came to commands.
Want to save? :w
Want to quit? :q
Want to save and quit? :wq
Very elegant. GUI WYSIWYG doesn’t come close when it comes to commands.
Man, this comment made me feel a little embarrassed at myself. I saw the shortcuts and thought about how I have a tradition of going to the top of the file when I’m done editing and about to save/quit. I always hit the shortcut for it and think “gg boys! Good game” and then quit out of vim.
Stop judging me.
:q! this meme, man
You forgot to his escape twice first. You’re in insert mode sir.
More like <esc><esc><esc><esc><esc><esc><esc><esc>… Just in case
META-c. My hands on meta and ESC is all the way over there
Real nerds use Ctrl [ instead so they don’t leave home row.
ZZ, more often than not.
Out of curiosity, I wondered what the original meme was. Found them and thought I’d share them:
Here’s the original: https://i.imgur.com/kERuZkW.jpg
And here’s the one that this is based off (slightly different): https://i.imgur.com/HFwENsd.png
Both of those are also true. Add in one with Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, Threads…
Neovim is awesome
vim is so last year. have you people heard of GitHub’s new ‘Atom’ IDE? I think it’ll be the next big thing 😊
An IDE written in Electron?? What a terrible idea! Nobody would ever be stupid enough to let something like that take off…
Vim keys in vscode for the win, I’m dead serious
$ alias vim='timeout 600 vim'alias vim='sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root'You ought to be punished for your transgressions
That prompts in most modern distros. You should pipe it to sshpass.
I legit code in nano.
I use Notepad via Wine.
Ah, a fellow masochist.
But why?
Did you start with busybox and just decide to stay there?
Like, often?
Wait there’s nano? I’ve been using ed. /jk
Op, we have decided to go with a different candidate
I can quit whenever I like. I just don’t want to eyes shifting nervously
They give us their ‘cures’ (neovim) while they suppress our medicine (emacs)
Are you looking to break the fragile peace we have?
:%s/polle/fellow-vim-user/gcThe editor so good people never learn to leave it.
Take my angry upvote
Well well !!
… the cleaning paste?
I went to a Data and AI conference and in one of the breakout sessions, there was a guy literally taking notes in Vim.
Absolute madness!
I do it all the time. 🤪
I can navigate and organize my own notes 10 times faster than if I used most alternatives, especially with plugins like Neorg that support visually distinct markup output via concealer configs. There’s even a presentation mode.
