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I didn't think that kind of joke would ever :q

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So true- I was talking to someone about vim the other day and wanted to tell them the keybinding for something I use daily, but had no idea what it was without a keyboard there for reference.

i like my arrays starting from 0 thank you

Hawaiian programmer

I know Lua. Lua is why I won't use neovim.

I love Lua. Can I do anything useful with it?

I don't know a language. Some sort of decision freeze. I've tried Lua, C#, Linux BASH, and Java. I went from learning C# to homelabbing proxmox. I have more success learning IT stuff.

Also I haven't used Vim or Emacs, but I used to rebind ALL of my keys in every game I played. I deeply love keybinding and using the keyboard rather than the mouse.

I work primarily in tmux and even in an IT department, people regularly say something along the lines of "woah are you hacking?"

"How are you doing this?"

"Yes"

At times, I've also juggled (in addition to vim and tmux) hotkeys for my current tiling WM of choice and extra hotkeys to swap between machines via barrier. I'm not sure how I'm able remember what I had for breakfast, much less someone's name.

Colon Q Exclamation Mark!!

You may enjoy Vim Adventures to get some context - and it's pretty fun. It teaches the wild and powerful keybindings for the Vim text editor, but in the form of an online typing game.

Vim is a text editor that works in a command line and therefore doesn't require a graphical interface or windowing system, or anything like a mouse or trackpad or touch interface. It has a whole system of using the keyboard to do a bunch of things really efficiently, but the user has to actively go and learn those keyboard shortcuts, and almost an entire language of how to move the cursor around and edit stuff. It's great once you learn it, so it creates a certain type of evangelist who tries to spread the word.

This meme template is perfect, because the vim user really did learn a bunch of stuff, and then wants to try to convince other people to do the same, using a pretty unpersuasive rationale (not using a mouse while programming).

ydotool

There's also autokey, similar to autohotkey but with Python. I haven't had to use it for much but I didn't have any issues when I used it for some RuneScape autogrinding

I juat use Plasma's custom shortcuts, works really well.

There's just not a lot of content lol

No, not really. People say that Emacs is self-documenting for a reason. You only need to remember how to ask Emacs for information, whatever that information may be. Commands, key bindings, manuals, etc.

100% agree. Emacs macros take much more space.

That's why i like command pallets. Just fuzzy search the command, and if you do the action a lot bind a key combination.

I don't understand why you hate seeing the same meme twice. Also I don't think I ever saw it on lemmy. I don't think it's a meme that's reposted all over, because I haven't seen it on Reddit either and only saw it for the first time when specifically searching for vim memes. If I see a meme more than once and it's a good meme, I enjoy it. Why do you not do the same?