33 points

I once wrote C# code in MS Word because the only other option was Notepad.

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15 points

I wrote some code with ed once. It had a nice, calm insanity to it.

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60 points

You made the wrong choice.

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1 point

It was school work. All I needed was some proper visual indentations and a monospaced font.

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Right, so Notepad.

The indentations in Word won’t be “proper;” they’re based on physical dimensions, not characters.

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20 points

I was there, Gandalf, 3000 years ago, writing my first html code in notepad. And I was happy about that.

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5 points

ASP and PHP, too.

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2 points

You’re not alone

https://youtu.be/X34ZmkeZDos

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5 points

I honestly don’t understand how notepad is a worse alternative to word.

Word is great for formatting documents but not code.

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16 points

I switched from vim to emacs a couple weeks ago specifically for org mode and it has legit changed the way I work.

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What have you found most useful from switching? I switched to emacs a while ago and still feel like a beginner (largely because I got too greedy with all the goodies at the beginning and ended up with loads of features I hadn’t learned to use yet and a messy init.el. I restarted and am adding features as I need them, to prevent that same complexity sprawl)

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1 point

I needed a better organization tool to keep track of tasks and todos, and I read about org mode on lemmy. I ended up following this tutorial and then building my own templates once I understood everything. It’s fantastic now that I have it a little customized, makes it so quick and easy to keep notes.

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Heretic

/s /j

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11 points

I switched from vim to emacs years ago. Then years later I switched back. Emacs is cool and all but it really killed my pinkie finger!

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1 point

Huh. I’m sorry to hear you got fired.

:P

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14 points

Meanwhile me looking up how to use vim everytime I use it

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21 points

I read those comments. Wow this is like being on TV.

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Why would anyone bother learning both Vim and LibreOffice when LibreOffice supports every file format Vim does, and more?

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10 points

Emacs followers in shambles.

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6 points

I have a friend who keeps bragging about vim and all but tbh it’s not a big deal to keep this hype going. I use featherpad btw.

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