> my wife
> vim user
fake
At first, I was mad. Then the slow, sad realization that you’re more right than not…
Hey I’m married and use Vim. I feel attacked 😅
You must be very good at masking.
I was just playing BOTW looking for a mask does that count?
Subject doesn’t understand social cues
Great to see this type of humor poping out.
Maybe she just wasn’t impressed by your noob skills and is having doubts herself?
My jaw literally dropped reading that.
I think it’s time to go outside.
Deep down, every Vim user just wants one person to tell them that the countless hours they spent leaning to use it weren’t a total waste of time.
This relationship can be saved as long as the guy’s wife does not start expressing an interest in Emacs. That would, of course, put an end to the relationship, but if she’s one of those “Notepad is all I need” types, there is hope this can be worked through.
Maybe she already evolved past vim to kakoune. 😎
and evolved past kakoune to helix
I actually went, emacs -> vim -> helix -> kakoune.
I went helix -> vim -> emacs -> kakoune -> neovim, super interesting to see how people’s experiences differ
ive heard women are into emacs these days
We are, but, like… Just preferring something else doesn’t make vim unimpressive. Silver medal’s still pretty fucking prestigious, you know?
“nothing fancy” that’s the issue, just some jumping won’t impress her; you gotta do the real crazy shit. Friggin “wife not impressed by my cooking? I make a hard boiled egg and she isn’t impressed”
He should have installed neovim with LSPs for Python/Rust/etc for intellisense and linting to really get her all hot and bothered.
That’s because her bull uses Emacs.
Look, some of us old farts started on Linux back before nano was included by default, and your options for text editing on the command line were either:
- vi/vim, a perfectly competent text editor with arcane and unintuitive key combos for commands
- emacs, a ludicrously overcomplicated kitchen-sink program that had reasonable text-editing functionality wedged in between the universal woodchuck remote control and the birdcall translation system
Given those options, most of us chose to learn how to key-chord our way around vim, and old habits die hard.
I’m sorry, you need to :s/replace/her/ as soon as possible.
Maybe she’s into VSCode guys. So try VSCode with vim plugin.
:q!
if your wife wasn’t vi-impressed, maybe she already is vi-improved ;-)
Have you tried rebooting her?
Emacs can do that obviously. And everything else.
Relevant xkcd
C-dto initiate a divorce. So convenient.
My wife’s impressed though, may be a little…
But she’s also a programmer.
