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The future of Vim builds for Windows (groups.google.com)
submitted 1 month ago by tux0r@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

No one even uses Vim anymore, you should just switch to Wordpad. It’s far superior cause you can type in bold and italics.

😎

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use Emacs.

[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

While I can use Emacs and Vim (adequately enough) I really feel in love with Joe back when I was first learning Unix.

(I did have a phase where I used WordStar and VisiCalc long after they were surpassed by others.)

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Is it better than nano? It has all the standard Ctrl-based keyboard shortcuts these days, syntax highlighting etc.

[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 2 points 1 month ago

It’s still more feature rich than Nano, with things like macros and multi-file search/replace from the command line though since I started using it, Nano has taken up some of the slack.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I still have a soft spot for WordStar, to an extent where I wrote a WordStar-to-Markdown converter just to make WordTsar (no typo) even more useful for my daily usage. (Emacs doesn’t just cut it for letters.)

[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was unfamiliar with wordtsar, that’s amazing.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Enjoy! The developer is happy about any bug reports and/or feature ideas, and he’s really responsive. :-)

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

The WordPad that was recently discontinued?

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

I remember dropping stink bombs in the schoolyard

[–] int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

I use helix, and it does have bold and italic! what I really like about helix is how you can have multiple cursors at once.