Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that’s really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

  • NormalC@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I think Vim bindings are dumb and get in the way. I will never understand the appeal of modal editing. Emacs was always the superior program since it was released by Richard Stallman in 1985.

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        1 year ago

        I’m sorry that I don’t HJKL everywhere. Some people prefer their refined and exquisite: C-b, C-n, C-p, C-f.

    • fubo@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Stallman didn’t invent Emacs; Moon and Steele did. Stallman ported it from TECO to Lisp — and not a particularly good Lisp. GNU Emacs shoulda been replaced by something in Common Lisp or Scheme decades ago.

    • psilocybin@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Emacs was always the superior program since it was released by Richard Stallman in 1985.

      Easily agreed.

      That being said I can’t go back from my meow modal keybindings

    • argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I prefer Microsoft/Apple/IBM style key bindings (Ctrl+X to cut, Ctrl+V to paste, etc). Text editors don’t need to have a completely different set of key bindings from everything else.

    • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Anyone that uses either is just doing so to feel superior, people sitting on 64 gig of ram, 32 core processors, 4090 gfx cards but they can’t spare the system resources for a proper gui? People only like them because they’re hard to use and awkward.

      • charje@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Emacs has a proper gui by default. You have to give it option to make it run in the terminal.

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        1 year ago

        the real unpopular opinion is always in the comment replies. fr tho have you ever seen a real vim wizard at work? the productivity boost you get from a keyboard only workflow is mind boggling. it goes way beyond what anyone in notepad/modern IDE/Word can accomplish even if they have the fastest kpm in the world. being lightweight and universal is just a side benefit