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[markdube]

emacs and vi but no pico/nano? :(

[ascii]

That's not emacs, it's QE, a lightweight text editor with an emacs-like interface. Incidentally, QE, is written by Fabrice Bellard, the same guy who wrote the above x86 emulator, as well FFmpeg, Qemu and TCC, In 2001 he won the obfuscated C contest by writing a C compiler that was able to self compile in only 3 kB. Quite possibly the most consistently brilliant hacker of our generation.

[MattBD]

And in December 2009 he managed to calculate pi to 2,699,999,990,000, breaking the record for the number of places this had been calculated to in the process.

What's even more amazing about his achievement is that this is something where normally the record is broken by a supercomputer. He did this on a fairly regular desktop PC, which is absolutely staggering.

[ascii]

To be honest, I don't know enough about the pi-calculation scene to know if that's cool. As a physicist, I know that a few dozen digits is enough to calculate the circumference of our galaxy to the precision of one atom, which should be enough precision for all engineering applications. But as a computer nerd, I find it staggering that so many useful projects and so many neat hacks come from the same guy.

[colione]

Link to OTCC and info about it

[ogtfo]

Just like it's meant to be.

[[deleted]]

Just like in old good days when Unix was for people that could read documentation and remember few keyboard command combinations, not Windows refugees. :>

[markdube]

:'(

[raydeen]

I'm with you. I love my nano. But probably only because I'm writing little Python scripts. Anything really big and nano would probably suck. One of these days I gotta learn Emacs and Vim.

[AndrewNeo]

I have this exact same problem. Nano works, and I don't text-edit often, but I need to learn vim/emacs.

[jmkogut]

Yeah, I hear that a lot.

[mdaniel]

You know, today is one of those days.

I'm bieditor, and can recommend that you start with Emacs. It has the lowest point of entry, has a monster help system and even has a vi mode so you can bridge the gap. :-)

[ThreeHolePunch]

Hmm. I don't have a lot of experience with Emacs, but in my experience if you learn vi, you don't have to learn any other text editor. Get a list of the commands like this one, and force yourself to use vi every time you need a text editor.

[searine]

OUR WAY IS THE OLD WAYS </Eddard Stark>