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On Thu, 20 Nov 2024, rbowman wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 22:11:42 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>
>> Both vi and emacs live in a different planet than I do.
>
> vi definitely lives someplace else in the solar system than vim or gVim.
>
> The choice was easy back when disk space was at a premium. iirc, gVim took
> around 2 MB, and emacs took over 20 MB. Of course gVim didn't tell your
> fortune, play go, or require keyboard maneuvers equivalent to playing B7
> on a guitar.
>

This old classic comes to mind:

Regexing with several editors:

acme:
>Oh, | want to execute a regular expression on my text here.
>Here | go.
>| take my mouse hand off my keys.
>| move my mouse hand to my mouse
>I grip the mouse with my mouse hand
>| move the mouse to the tag strip on top of the editing buffer
>I click the tag strip
>| release the mouse
>| move my mouse hand to the keys
>| write the regex
>| take my mouse hand off the keys
>| move my mouse hand to my mouse
>I grip the mouse and press da butans
>| drag the mouse over the regex to highlight it
>| release da butans
>| watch as my regex hopefully does what it needs to do on the first try.
>I move the mouse to the editing buffer to continue inputting text
>| release the mouse
>| move my mouse hand to the keys
>| FINALLY start typing again.

Emacs:
>press both foot pedals
>press meta shift control sysrq
>play the moonlight sonata on the two extra leopards while requesting 
Regex-Mode with the headstick.
>hit the electric cymbals strapped under my arm and while putting the 
shift-stick | have gripped tightly with my sphincter into turbo mode.
>signal my two assistants to turn their keys in unison, NOW!
>input the regex
>release all keys and watch as emacs gracefully rearranges the text

vim:
>escape or equivalent
>: %s/foo/bar/g
>enter
>continue editing