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r1w1s1@r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe (2026-09-17 06:30:59)
This really resonates with me. My editor journey has actually gone in the opposite direction:
vim → nvi → and now increasingly eh(https://codeberg.org/SirWumpus/eh/)
I’ve even tried forcing myself to use ed for a while. I can appreciate it, but as a daily editor today, that’s a difficult commitment. :)
nvi and eh have made me realize how little I actually need from an editor.
Funny how hardware stopped forcing us to use small tools, yet some of us are finding our way back to them by choice.
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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.)
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r1w1s1@r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe (2026-09-17 07:42:09)
I think my workflow is just a little different. I stopped using an external monitor years ago by choice, and I tend to focus on one thing at a time. If I need another file, I often just use another tmux window. I guess tmux is my buffer manager. :) That probably explains why I don't miss multi-buffer support much.