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Songs about Vim (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] PrimeErective@startrek.website 63 points 11 months ago
[-] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago
[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 18 points 11 months ago

this guy pipes cat into lolcat!

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 17 points 11 months ago
[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago
ln -s `which cat` /usr/local/bin/nano
[-] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 11 months ago
[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

But less is more

[-] MashedTech@lemmy.world 52 points 11 months ago

Look, honestly, to me at least, this horse has been dead for a 1000 years and we've been beating it since then. Initially I was as well, "haha funny, what is vim, so hard" and then I happened to interact with it for the first time, did a web search and all the amusement died. If it's like this we should make fun of Ctrl+C as well because "Omg, so hard to terminate a terminal program, there is no X to click on" just because this is non standard for a user that is familiar with only the GUI. We could abstract and transform this meme 1000 times because there will always be somebody who knows how to do something and then there is something else that doesn't work the way he/she/they/etc. are used to and searching for an answer is too hard.

Or am I just dumb, ranting about something that doesn't even matter because in the end there will always be new people, for which vim is new and hard and vim maybe is the most popular thing most of the new users on here have a hard time understanding. Will this meme ever evolve into something else at one point? Was there a precursor to this meme before vim or vi existed? What are other similar memes that I reacted to the same way because I find myself in a similar spot as most people find themselves with vim and I am just a hypocrite?

TL;DR: Just disregard my useless comment, enjoy the things you want to enjoy, and be happy, you only get one life, don't waste it getting mad at useless shit.

[-] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 11 months ago

Started writing my own in-terminal editor recently.

When I ran it the first time I realized that I hadn't implemented quitting yet.

[-] Octopus1348@lemy.lol 1 points 11 months ago

Reply when the name is ready, I will check it out.

[-] alice_mac@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I too would like to check this out.

[-] HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago

Meeh, you made up for the rant in the end 👍 😁.

[-] kurwa@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Now if we're talking about vi, that's a whole other thing. First time on a system and the git editor was set to vi, and I was like oh I know exactly how to get out of this because I know vim a bit, turns out I was wrong. It did legitimately throw me for a loop haha

[-] Zink@programming.dev 7 points 11 months ago

I think it’s just a memorable shared experience that a big portion of Linux users had at one point. That kind of thing is prime meme fuel. And sure, there is always a fresh supply of people who ran into it recently.

For me, I’ve been familiar with *nix for decades, but I’ve only been a daily Linux user for about a year. I remember using emacs back in my Unix days, so the sudden unexpected learning curve of vim commands is fairly recent to me. I’ve already seen like 50 variations of this meme since joining the “lol exiting vim” club, but they still amuse me.

[-] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

This is the optimal way to both get the rant out of ypur system and be constructive at the same time

[-] szlwzl@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago

I have one of these tooA Spotify playlist called songs about vi with a single song "hotel california" by the eagles

[-] SpookyCoffee@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

Program: requires u to read man

Entire internet apparently: omg so hard, never again

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 11 months ago

Me: youtube.com, Search: Vim tutorial linux

Youtuber: "Fuckin hjkl i :s/foo/bar/g esc :wq"

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[-] aniki@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago
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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Rebooting
I'm free

lol 😋

[-] spidermonkey23@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Just wish it wasn't the default for certain actions. First time doing a git commit message I shat myself

[-] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Yep, pretty much the same experience... I was like "fuck, what did I fuck up now 🤦 😭... the owner is gonna kill me 😬" 😂.

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 months ago
[-] pftbest@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago
[-] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago
[-] ArcticAmphibian@lemmus.org 14 points 11 months ago
[-] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Fair question

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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago
[-] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 11 months ago
[-] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

I presumed as much, but didn't think to ask.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago

Ah, I was hoping for something foss

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[-] Twig@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago
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