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Chris Siebenmann@cks@mastodon.social

That cks. Overcommitted sysadmin, photographer, bicyclist, and other multitudes. I write a lot of words for a programmer. he/him/they/them 🇨🇦

Techblog: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/
Github: https://github.com/siebenmann
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/22276923@N06/
Joined: 2026-09-17 06:32:15
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Reply to @r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe
Chris Siebenmann@cks@mastodon.social (2026-09-17 07:02:08)
@r1w1s1 One of my twitches is that multi-buffer support is absolutely necessary for any editor I'm going to genuinely like, as opposed to tolerate. I've also come to like a bunch of vim features, like visual block mode, because they're handy for various stuff I do all the time.

(I wound up in GNU Emacs too for eccentric reasons having to do with a shift in my email environment, although I also have a long history with it.)

Chris Siebenmann@cks@mastodon.social (2026-09-16 07:14:34)
Can I recommend GNU Emacs to people? No, not really, but that's because I can't recommend any editor to people¹. All serious editors are A Project to actually use (because of all the learning). If you've got one that works, stick with it. Otherwise, who knows what will click or be appealing or do what you want, certainly not me.

¹ the one exception is that Unix sysadmins will benefit from learning 'basic' vi editing because vi is absolutely everywhere. What counts as basic vi may vary.