Maybe you should relax and enjoy a nice cold
Coca-Cola. Not a Pepsi though, that angers up the blood!
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Not sure I’ve ever grinned so much at a comment before, well done.
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Because vi (or sometimes just edlin) was on every Unix-like machine I used and emacs wasn’t to be found without an installation being performed.
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This is 100% the reason. I have a client who swears by emacs, and I’m just too lazy to set it up.
I find myself swearing at emacs pretty much all the time when trying to do anything more than a simple substitution. It maybe programmable but for programmatic changes to vast amounts of text I used to use DEC’s TPU on VAX/VMS for that task. Although I did find emacs (on Linux) useful when writing a 500 page programmers reference manual to an API marking it up in DocBook for portability reasons.
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I don’t have a great solution for this. The long and short is that I redesigned my workflow in a way that I could avoid having to use textexpander. I don’t suggest that here as a solution for you; Just letting you know what I did in case it’s of interest.
I was a TextExpander subscriber but gave it up because I was frustrated with what I found to be a terrible iOS keyboard. Now, I understand that the developers pulled the app from the App Store. I hope they get the development down and put out a good product. I would prefer if iOS just allowed textexpander expansion from the native keyboard.
Anyway, what I’ve done is use a combination of iOS text replacements for the more simple snippets that I used on TextExpander, + I created shortcuts, and I created a set of text templates. I do a lot of things by “SOP,” and having text snippets that pre-populated emails with checklists and other things that I wanted to delegate to my staff was very convenient. Between dictation, shortcuts, and text templates, I have my workflow ironed out. I do miss the functionality and convenience of textexpander variables.
The shortcuts work because I can address the variables. But it’s less convenient. Textexpander’s UI is so great for quickly creating snippets. As a result, with shortcuts, I’ve been more selective in what snippets that I create. I think there is a way to make a more global shortcut that could have a library of text snippets. That is one of the things that I wanted to play around with this summer.
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That’s probably it. 30 years ago I knew how to use it. Now, I keep forgetting how to do things. It is pretty light weight compared to emacs, though. I think emacs was around when we all chose vim.
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When I was choosing between them, emacs seemed to want to be an OS within an OS. That deterred me. I mostly like vim because it feels like like a code scalpel to me. After using it for a while everything else felt like a sharp stone in comparison 
. But I totally see, why many people dislike it. To each their own I guess.
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Then there are those who run emacs in evil mode to get what they consider the best of both worlds.
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At this rate, @Bmosbacker will have to make a whole new thread to update us on his journey. Or link to his updates in the first post. Hahaha
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I shouldn’t say I “hate” it because I’m still using it and have the option to go to emacs. It does seem like I’m making my life harder for no reason… but yet I stick with it.
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I was thinking about that. I am more into vim movements then the editor itself. To make it a valid tool, I would need to install a bunch of extensions and config. So I use a mostly vanilla neovim integration into VS Code.
I get this feeling sometimes as well. Then I disable my neovim extension to enable it again the next day…
Great question. I am trying out the beta keyboard. Have only had for a day so still getting used to it. Some kinks to work out but it may get me there. I wrote to TE and got a quick response to get into the TestFlight.
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I played around with it when I had an iPad. But I disliked having a subscription too much. Maybe have a look at Rocket Typist which is a OTP. But I do not know if it works with hardware keyboards.
vi is the best because it is installed by default on every unix/linux system. I can debug and fix any server problem because I know vi like the back of my hand and don’t have to jump through hoops to install something like emacs.
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Although I don’t love Time Machine, I probably take it for granted, it is another advantage of the Mac and having a real file system as part of the OS. I never really worry about data loss on a Mac because they are so easy to back up. (Knock on wood.)
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This is a fascinating thread.
My use of the iPad has jumped enormously as I pursue a church organ project with my two children. Essentially I built a simple two manual organ and midified a pedal board to allow our children to record pieces for our church.
I use these recordings when the children are not available to play live. The recording process, voicing to an InterApp Audio software organ from Omenie using AUM and Logic Pro for iPad gives a wonderful repository of hymn backing tracks for our Catholic Church.
I used to use my mac but this is so much easier to achieve on the iPad.
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Since it has so many things wrong (everything), I am assuming you used AI for this.
Oh yes, just for fun! 