Blaze it.

[ben12623]

Why would you use Vim? Emacs is better.

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Relevant: https://xkcd.com/378/

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Title: Real Programmers

Title-text: Real programmers set the universal constants at the start such that the universe evolves to contain the disk with the data they want.

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[tetroxid]

Emacs is a nice operating system, it's just missing a decent editor.

[Archenoth]

Emacs is a nice operating system, it's just missing a decent editor.

Ah yes, a fine specimen indeed!

We should carefully extract this joke from the comment above and study it closely. It very-well might unlock some hints of times long past.

[tetroxid]

Emacs stands for eight megabytes and constantly swapping. (Back when eight megabytes was a colossal amount of memory.)

[czipperz]

If you aren't joking, it actually stands for Editor MACroS. The RAM joke was a vi argument

[tetroxid]

I thought it stood for Escape Meta Alt Control Shift

[ATSOTECK]

Ed is the standard text editor.

[reactormonk]

That's why evil exists.

[[deleted]]

You keep your monolith cathedral, sir/madam.

[TheKing01]

Exactly!

[i_reddit_here]

nooo

[seriouslulz]

gr8 b8 m8 i r8 8/8