Anyone who finds fault with this list = Skill issue.
- You used the wrong icon. It should be emacs - Yeah, emacs makes way more sense for this one - The only thing emacs is missing is a text editor - That actually made me laugh out loud. Well done - oh man. all the old jokes are new again. shit, am i basically a dad now? - Vi vs EMACS jokes are well within grandpa territory now. Sorry. 
- I saw that reply and figured I’d just let the whippersnappers enjoy themselves 😅 - it’s a healthy sign of a community when dad jokes enter the cultural milieu as something that’s passed from generation to generation. we inherited these jokes, handed them down, and someday they’ll be handed down again 
- Grandpa, will you tell me the story about the black and orange computer screens please? 
 
- Next thing you know people aren’t going to know that EMACS stands for Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping. Or why that’s funny. - Today I learned 
 
- Well, seeing as I’m more than a decade younger than emacs… I guess so? 
 
 
- That’s why evil-mode exists 
- The only thing emacs is missing is a text editor - How dare you. I’m sending the church of emacs after your ass. - Free software song starts playing 
 
- Surely someone has used the built-in Lisp interpreter to emulate a feature exact - nano.
- Just open the file in Vim? 
 
 
- C-x M-c M-butterfly - And the only thing preventing us mortals from having such power is the lack of a - butterflykey on our keyboards
 
- yea, emacs even has a doctor - Why do you say that? - M-x doctor - In emacs, ESC then x then type doctor, I remember this from 30 years ago - Is it because you say “I remember this from 30 years ago” that emacs has a doctor? 
 
 
 
- Is it possible to downvote a comment twice? - Upvote it first. - Genius! 
 
 
- I am a firm believer of (neo)vim being the pinnacle of editing. My workdays start with vim and end with vim. But vim is not the everything app, which the e in emacs probably stands for. - HOWEVER, there are vim plugins for almost everything, which is pretty cool. This point goes to you, emacs rivals. Let’s keep it between us and not the vs code or IDE weirdos 
- Only acceptable in eVil form - Doom Emacs for those who have truly ascended. - Everyone should Doom themselves 
 
 
- Neovim* - nvim 
 
- I don’t even agree with the meme and I hate this comment. 
- How the fuck did you beat me to it and get so many up votes so fast 
- It should be Neovim and Lua. Nobody should be subjected to the curse and torment of writing Elisp. 
 
- Sounds like vim is aspiring to be Emacs. - shots fired  - You can tell it’s legit, because it says Vi. 
- The war is still ongoing. Many of us never figured out how to quit Vi. 
 
 
- only because once you start using vim, you can’t stop. why do you think people make full on operating systems within vim? - because they can’t leave. - This will free you- :q!- I’ve been stuck in vim for years, and everyone just brings up this “:q!” emoticon to mock me. - rude - You need to press - Escapetwice, first.
 Then pass on the rudeness to- vim. It will know
 
 
 
 
- I know it’s a classic but confused how I’m supposed to use Vim to send an email - Already got my Vim, any tips?  - open it, use it. keep using it because you can’t close it - Shit, I’ve been scrubbing the bathroom for 10hours, can’t close Vim 
 
 
- EMACS CURED MY AUTISM!- in only + / - bilions of years! 
 
- what sort of honoric is et al, does it make you plural? - no no McS. et al., PhD is mf actual family name. Trying a bit too hard to get a great academic career. 
- In case you’re not being sarcastic, et al is a shortening that means “among others” - usually authors of academic papers are clubbed together like this. In this context it is more like, “among other educational qualifications” - While that does make sense, I think I’ll stick to thinking they’re plural. 
 
 
- For those who haven’t seen this amazing interview: 
 
- Emacs! - -> Vim - -> nano - -> Microsoft edit 1.0 for Linux - Heh, looks like Microsoft employed someone and just let them do whatever they wanted. So they fucked around and made a text editor in Rust. They even have an anime avatar on github. Definitely doesn’t smell like a microsoft project but hey… if a company feeds you, you gotta put their name on your project. 
- Wait what oh gods no 
- Well I think this has been too much Internet for me today 
 
- -> micro 
 
 
- It’s a great OS it’s just lacking a decent text editor. - I used to spend hours trying to get the image on the right page. Now i use Org-mode LaTeX, and just accept that it’s impossible. 
 
- 🦶 - GNOME -> Vim 
 
- Can emacs really do all of this? - Probably… so long as Emacs can be used to open up Vim. :-P - Lmao y’all are degenerates. - It probably can somehow 
 
- Theres an emacs map plugin, and a webkit browser, and org mode is basically notes + calendar, you can edit and copy remote files with tramp mode. Theres also an emacs plugin for launching steam games. - Emacs comes with a plugin called “doctor” which is a rudimentary text ai from the 90s - One time I wanted to edit a binary file and I found out emacs comes with a hex editor - Man y’all really are trying to get me to try emacs. 
 
- Probably. I recently installed a bunch of packages so now I use emacs to check my RSS feeds, look up the current word’s definition or synonyms, browse Gopher and Gemini sites, check my email … I told myself I was doing it just for fun to see how much truth there was to the whole “emacs is a great operating system” joke but I genuinely love how handy it all is and I’m worried I’m going to keep falling in even deeper. A part of me does dislike not using purpose built programs for each of those functions (“do one thing and do it well”), but it’s been a fun experiment so far - Huh. - Well godamnit. I gotta check it out now. I’ll be right back, I swear 
 
 
 
- Mom: we have Google Maps at home - Google Maps at home: Vim 
- vim -> gnu emacs - emacs -> back to vim - vim -> back to emacs - emacs -> neovim - Full enlightenment achieved - neovim -> helix - enlightenment upgraded - ed- a Ascended .
- Low key I might need to try helix 
- No plugins though is kind of a dealbreaker 
 
 
 
 
 
- This feels like a meme a vim user would make about emacs being bloated 
- This would be more believable with eMacs tbh 
 - Most powerful “text editor” you can imagine inside a command line interface. It has unlimited super wild keyboard shortcuts and people on the internet make fun about it, that the only way to exit vim is by turning off the machine, because they don’t know the shortcut. 
- Vim is a sorry excuse of Emacs. Which is the editor made in and for the language of God, Lisp 
 
- AMSTERDAM TRIP: 52.37952717594758, 4.898731163397595 -> 52.373726213381254, 4.8991743688343785 -> 52.37307624236834, 4.892481840346751 -> 52.375235597713356, 4.883881824117286 -> 52.364346142549444, 4.882779439603186 -> 52.358151346039655, 4.868920785661565 -> 52.36032825423474, 4.885688072103288 -> 52.38899110197864, 4.8381014035210965 - Is this navigation? - VI-Maps 
 
 
- This is one of those threads where it is like all of you are just speaking funny(?) gibberish at each other. - That’s not gibberish, those are hilarious jokes using sophisticated vim commands. Here’s another, which you have no hope of understanding, but vim users will love: - :%s/ass/butt/g
 
- “YESS! YESSSSS! GIVE IN TO YOUR EMACS SIDE!!!” - Google Search really sucks these days. I can’t find any images of Richard M. Stallman as a Sith lord, even though I’m sure vi fans have made several edits by now. …It’s been a while. 
- Oops, all vim! 
- This would make more sense with Emacs /ducks - Now I Declare The Start of The Holy EDITOR WAR!!! 
- NGL this was my first thought, and I don’t even use Emacs! 
- M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead 
 






































