2020-08-04-RE_sloum

Quick missive to reply back to ~sloum's

I feel better *enough* today to go back to work. I don't think it's COVID, but I'll keep being safe. I'm just waiting to get it, to be honest. But enough of that.

As far as the shoulder's concerned, I think it's definitely just age. Gotta love it. Thirty is going to be the year I become old, lol.

Thanks for the well-wishes, by the way! They warmed my heart this morning. (And I did see it on Spacewalk, haha!)

Why I'm really writing this, however, is for your second paragraph:

> You could spend the time at home not just ditching evil mode but emacs altogether and just switch to Vim full time :-p (vanilla vim with a decent vimrc ftw!)

I've used Vim for my entire Linux career :) Well, now I use NeoVim. Or I was before trying out Emacs again. The muscle memory is strong with vim, the keyboard shortcuts just *make sense* in a lot of ways -- especially the plugins I use. For example, I started thinking about evil-mode when I was editing some HTML, and I wanted to do a vim-surround-style `ysit` to add a link inside headers. I ended up installing expand-region in Emacs so I could `C-=` a couple of times, then `C-c C-c a` to add anchor tags with the selection. It was okay, I guess. I *don't* like the find-replace in Emacs, though: `M-%`, then search, then RET, then replacement, then RET, then y-or-n for *every* replacement? `:%s/re/place/g` is waay easier.

Anyway, I was planning on expanding my emacs adventures into a full-on post of their own at some point, so I'll leave this here. I guess I should mention some of why I *am* trying emacs though, really quickly: I like the consistent interface it can give to everything. Lisp seems interesting, if a little too parentheses-y for me. Definitely better than VimScript (though that's a loooow bar). I like Elpher. I like the idea of Emacs being a completely integrated computing environment. Though I can hear the "Unix is my IDE" call now, from over my shoulder .........

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