• lemonhead2@lemmy.world
    7·
    10 hours ago

    interesting how things turned out today. no one will spend time configuring an editor anymore, and just use a pre-configured, possibly web based, default.

    I started with ms dos edit/borland. moved to Linux and emacs/xemacs shortly after (this was when the two editors were split).

    got emacs pinky and moved to vim. stayed with vim for 15+ years. finally moved to neovim (because of the Firefox extension firenvim)

    • smiletolerantly@awful.systems
      5·
      9 hours ago
      find modules/nixvim/ -name "*.nix" -type f -exec cat {} + | wc -l
3890

      I’d say I’ve spent enough time configuring neovim 😄

      (Btw, highly recommend configuring neovim through nixvim if you’re already using nix. Incredibly stable. I had to fix one plugin or another all the time with plain nvim. Now, literally never. Plus, nix run github:<username>/<repo>#nvim on any nix-enabled system, and get dropped into your exact config, keybinds, theme, plugins and all. I’ve set it up to expose language-enabled variants by appending e.g. .go or .python to that command.)

      (Sorry my comments tend to go off-topic)

      • lemonhead2@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 hours ago

        interesting how things change. i started out downloading scripts from vim.org before the github days. finally after 10years I got fed up and looked for a plugin manager. moved to packer.

        a couple of years later, that went dead so I was forced to move again. now I’m on lazy.nvim which works well for me.

        nvim decided to ship a default plugin manager. im dreading the day I have to migrate to that… (not cause it’s better/worse, but cause migrating is a pain)

        • smiletolerantly@awful.systems
          1·
          4 hours ago

          Funny, I also went from packer to lazy.nvim, but then hopped off and redid my config in nix. Hadn’t actually heard about the default package manager. That seems like a good thing for the ecosystem!

    • Digit@lemmy.wtfOPEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      no one will spend time configuring an editor anymore, and just use a pre-configured, possibly web based, default.

      Well call me “no one”.

      wc ~/.emacs.d/config.org
4831  21376 200536 /home/digit/.emacs.d/config.org

      (… not to mention having written my own, in fish, since I know fish better than I know elisp (despite using them for around the same length of time), with the goal of it being simple to extent and reconfigure for fish users (like me, wanting a better handle on my text editor reconfiguring and learning how to better use the configuration language.)).

      emacs pinky

      setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps

      Save you, it can. ;)

      Though, then there’s also evil-mode, and spacemacs and doomemacs, which I think both have evil-mode on by default.

      • lemonhead2@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 hours ago

        I’d swapped control and capslock almost immediately and still got emacs pinky. when I found vim, I decided I liked it more than the escape meta alt control shift madness, and quit. the vim script was better than elisp, but not great. neovim lua is better than vim script, but still a little lacking.

        i too have thousands of lines in my neovim config… but if I was starting today, the point and click editors are adequate enough that I might not invest the time.

        that said, I just added two plugins into my config today 🙃🙃