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In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives? (feddit.dk)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by privsecfoss@feddit.dk to c/foss

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I'll start:

RSS and blogs, news vs. social media
XMPP vs. WhatsApp/FB messenger/Snapchat
IRC vs. Matrix, Teams, Discord etc.
Forums vs. Social media, Reddit, Lemmy(?)

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[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I came to say vim...Is the debate still a thing?

[–] laird_dave@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No.

There is no debate because vim is the superior editor, period.

[–] SteleTrovilo 5 points 1 year ago

Vim is the greatest tool ever made for manipulating text as text. Emacs is easier to modify (I <3 Lisp) and is better at handling the semantics of the text it's working with.

Also, Emacs has evil-mode now, so the only reason to still prefer Vim is 1. A strange love of vimscript, or 2. A lack of permissions to install Emacs.

[–] kotatsuyaki 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to be on the vim side in the debates, but now that I've also used Emacs - Porque no los dos?

[–] Jaloopa 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been using vim for years. Because I can't figure out how to exit it

[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 5 points 1 year ago

:wq! to save and quit or :q! to just quit

[–] wet_lettuce 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

zz will also quit it. Zz when vim is sleepy

[–] iuseit@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 1 year ago

Every time I see those videos I think to myself. "Man I'm still working on this shitty first brain and now I have to make a 2nd one?"

[–] DrWeevilJammer@lm.rdbt.no 1 points 1 year ago

Or x, which does the same thing, with the same number of keystrokes. But the ZZ keys are closer together