<![CDATA[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]]>The invasion of slop into and has got me planning to switch to emacs, but Drew DeVault has forked pre-slop vim ICYMI

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.sdf.org/users/nutilius/statuses/114889457439794492https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.sdf.org/users/nutilius/statuses/114889457439794492Tue, 12 May 2026 15:20:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 12 May 2026 14:53:27 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/dentangle/statuses/116562172820572314https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/dentangle/statuses/116562172820572314Tue, 12 May 2026 14:53:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 12 May 2026 14:50:25 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/dentangle/statuses/116562160886567990https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/dentangle/statuses/116562160886567990Tue, 12 May 2026 14:50:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 12 May 2026 14:07:15 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.cat/users/amcooper/statuses/116561991171317280https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.cat/users/amcooper/statuses/116561991171317280Tue, 12 May 2026 14:07:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 12 May 2026 13:58:34 GMT]]>@onepict @amcooper I've been running 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 -classic 😉

I have an ebuild ready to go for 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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/dentangle/statuses/116561956994318802https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/dentangle/statuses/116561956994318802Tue, 12 May 2026 13:58:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 12 May 2026 13:56:57 GMT]]>@onepict @dentangle Fuckin’ A Right!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.cat/users/amcooper/statuses/116561950624931962https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.cat/users/amcooper/statuses/116561950624931962Tue, 12 May 2026 13:56:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Tue, 12 May 2026 13:50:03 GMT]]>@amcooper @dentangle is proxy maintaining it for Gentoo.

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