The invasion of slop into #vim and #Neovim has got me planning to switch to emacs, but Drew DeVault has forked pre-slop vim ICYMI

[amcooper@toot.cat]

The invasion of slop into #vim and #Neovim has got me planning to switch to emacs, but Drew DeVault has forked pre-slop vim ICYMI

A eulogy for Vim

(drewdevault.com)

[onepict@chaos.social]

@amcooper @dentangle is proxy maintaining it for Gentoo.

[amcooper@toot.cat]

@onepict @dentangle Fuckin’ A Right!

[dentangle@chaos.social]

@onepict @amcooper I've been running #vimclassic for a few weeks now. Hard to tell the difference really. It was forked before the vim9 script was introduced, but I never used that so I don't miss it.

No release as yet, but there's a small team getting it ready. Come join us on libera.chat on #vim-classic

I have an ebuild ready to go for #gentoo as soon as a release is announced - we want to provide LLM-free alternatives for users. eVi is another fork that we're looking at.

[amcooper@toot.cat]

@dentangle I’ve been running Neovim because I don’t like vimscript and don't hate lua. So right now I’m trying to decide whether to go to vim classic or emacs. I’ve shocked myself by being open to emacs when I never really was before. Anyway, good luck! Not sure you’ll need it!
@onepict

[dentangle@chaos.social]

@amcooper @onepict I've been meaning to take a look at emacs for about 30 years now , it's just never hit the top of the priority list. vim has always been sufficient for my needs, and, until the LLM sloppification, never sufficiently annoyed me to go shopping for a text editor.

[dentangle@chaos.social]

@amcooper @onepict While I was working on the gentoo ebuild for vim-classic I unexpectedly found myself without another text editor during the switch and briefly used ed(1) - it's surprisingly usable - fortunately I'm used to sed(1) commands.

I could *almost* get by with ed, though I'd miss split screen editing when writing serious code. Have used it a few times since when I've had small sysadmin jobs to do, and it really does 90% of what I want.

[nutilius@social.sdf.org]

@amcooper that is why I’m looking back on the #nvi #vim