> 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 😅
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Great to see this type of humor poping out.
I was just playing BOTW looking for a mask does that count?
Subject doesn’t understand social cues
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.
“See if you just learn these 87 simple keyboard shortcuts, you won’t need to simply drag with the mouse and cut and paste at all!”
“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.
jumping won’t impress her
Unless it’s jump humping.
Stop showing off VIM to your wife would be a good start. I mean, I would do the same if she tried to show off her make tutorials to me.
Make? As in Makefiles or make-up?
Makefile obviously. What the heck is a “make-up”?
make upis my build command for pushing to prodWell we do like to make stuff up so why not…
What does
make outdo?Ships into production apparently.
Wasn’t me. It was the other guy.
Make me should just refuse to do anything.
Um, excuse me, I’d like one order of
make installplease.
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You know what, that was mistype, but I’m not going to correct it since it fits better in this sub Lol
You realize that this is !programmer_humor@programming.dev, right?
Yes, and?
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
You made me look up helix again after a few years and it’s gotten pretty sick actually. I might main it for a while to see how it fairs. It’s fairly similar to kakoune of course, but it’ll take a while to get all the modes into my muscle memory. The similar actions are in different modes and there are many more modes in helix as far as I can tell. But it’s cool, looking forward to experimenting.
I actually went, emacs -> vim -> helix -> kakoune.
I went helix -> vim -> emacs -> kakoune -> neovim, super interesting to see how people’s experiences differ
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.
Divorce.
He tried, but he doesn’t know how to exit.
Vidorce.
:q!
Still some paperwork in a divorce so you’d probably want :wq!
Just edit the divorce documents in vim and you’ll be fine
Hmm. Attorney charges by the hour and at least 3 discovery hours will be attributed to the time spent learning to exit vim let alone exit with preserving changes.
But once the attorney learns vim, he will be able to edit divorce papers in 10x speed!
Vimorce
To divorce their imaginary wife, they would need to go to a mental health clinic, which means going outside; and might EVEN, dare I say, TOUCH GRASS!
Redditors don’t do that.
$ touch grass $Now what?
Redditors something something
I think you might be lost.
I think you might be lost.
Isn’t the original post a reddit screenshot?
sit your wife down in front of vim, and make her use it.
It’ll make more sense immediately.
If not, divorce.
Divorce
Makes sense: Even a marriage is easier to exit than Vim
I just dipped my feet in Vim yesterday, I found it not intuitive at all. :wq! To exit a read only file? I’m too dumb to think of syntax like that!
: is your commandline, it does a lot of actions. w is write, q is quit. So you’re doing a write quit, the ! just tells it to fuck off and do the fucking command essentially.
If you open a read only file, and you need to quit just hit it with the :q! or if you haven’t made any changes, :q will work just fine.
naturally, as one would expect, you can hit all of these independently. :w just writes changes, :q will close as aforementioned.
priorities. Gotta have em set straight.
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.
My wife’s impressed though, may be a little…
But she’s also a programmer.
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?
It’s not like ed had any chance of being anything other than last, anyway
Maybe she’s into VSCode guys. So try VSCode with vim plugin.
Have you tried rebooting her?
it might take ages for her to choose the right boots for rebooting ;-)
