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on Saturday April 18 2015, @11:32PM
from the smartphones-do-not-mean-smart-users dept.
from the smartphones-do-not-mean-smart-users dept.
Emacs vs. vi; PC vs. Mac; Windows vs. Linux; Sony vs. Nintendo. Holy wars of technological preference have been nothing new since the adolescence of computing technology, and are often the subject of many a debate here.
However, a recent argument between two roommates about the superiority of Apple vs. Android technologies has taken a bloody turn worthy of a bromance movie sequence:
As they tussled in a parking lot, the men allegedly struck and jabbed each other with broken beer bottles. Mendez and Ecevo suffered minor wounds during the fight and were transported to a local hospital for treatment of cuts and bruises.
Which raises the question - How close have you all come to violence during a technological argument?
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There will be big changes for you but you will be happy.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by srobert on Sunday April 19 2015, @12:16AM
Calm down gentlemen. We don't need to resort to fisticuffs. There's room for both vi and emacs, pc's and apples, and so forth. Let's just agree to disagree and move on to the next item on the agenda. Let's see. Next we have ...systemd.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Sunday April 19 2015, @02:15AM
Excuse me, please.
Emacs is not a competitor for vi in the text-editor niche market.
Emacs is not even a text editor.
It is a full-function desktop designed for text-only terminals. In this, it excels.
-- hendrik
(Score: 2) by Marand on Sunday April 19 2015, @04:56AM
It is a full-function desktop designed for text-only terminals. In this, it excels.
So is screen. And, unlike emacs, screen at least lets you use a decent text editor :)
(Score: 3, Funny) by Thexalon on Sunday April 19 2015, @12:34PM
Oh yes you can: Run meta-x term, and when it asks you what term to run just type "vim".
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 1) by srobert on Monday April 20 2015, @01:43AM
But tmux is superior to screen. If anyone says otherwise... stabbity, stab, stab, stab.
(Score: 2) by Marand on Monday April 20 2015, @02:44AM
Joking aside, what makes tmux nice to use? I tried it a long time ago when someone said it was nice, but it kept crashing for me (I forget why) so I never got to evaluate it properly and went back to screen.
For a slightly different use case, I actually like dvtm [brain-dump.org] quite a bit, though if you want to detach it like screen or tmux can, you have to use something like dtach [sourceforge.net] to run it. It acts like a dynamic tiling WM, which makes it really convenient if you're mostly interested in the window splitting aspects.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 19 2015, @04:09AM
If my choice is between installing systemd on my Linux system or getting stabbed in the cock, well, my cock might end up being the loser.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 19 2015, @07:16PM
If my choice is between installing systemd on my Linux system or getting stabbed in the cock, well, my cock might end up being the loser.
Where is the "ewwww" moderation option?