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Are there any good Emacs jokes that aren't based on ignorance of Emacs?

by sping 4y ago

ninjha01 4y ago
I could come up with one, but I’m too busy rewriting my config to use a better package manager again.
- andreareina 4y ago
  Oh no have we moved away from straight and use-package already?
  - imaltont 4y ago
    Emacs 29 can download packages straight from their source too, so time to move back I guess.
- bloopernova 4y ago
  You need to install yak-shave-mode to make that more efficient.
donio 4y ago
Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping is pretty funny now that everything else needs several GB of memory. (But to be fair even a minimal Emacs is about 20MB RSS these days).
- mftb 4y ago
  Hmm, I can't get an RSS that small even with -nw (to use the client TUI), but leaving that aside, on my box just running GNU Emacs normally I get 88MB RSS, so maybe we just need to update the acronym. ;)
  - donio 4y ago
    I had to rebuild it with everything turned off in ./configure to get that number.
    - mftb 4y ago
      Interesting, I was thinking it was probably a fork. Anyway good to know, ty.
- Gordonjcp 4y ago
  I think it's nuts that the Linux machine I run DaVinci Resolve on today has considerably more RAM than the Windows NT machine I used to use Premiere for editing on 22 years ago had hard disk space. Back then mine was the "scary" machine in the workshop with its AMD Duron 700 and a whopping 512MB of RAM... and Emacs was just about usable on it!
rnd0 4y ago
Yes. https://xkcd.com/378/ https://xkcd.com/378/
- dicytea 4y ago
  The fact that the punchline isn't a valid (or at least not a conventional) Emacs keybind still bugs me.
  - moloch-hai 4y ago
    M-nerdsniping. He knew what he was doing.
- rnd0 4y ago
  Though technically it's a alpha nerd joke with an emacs punchline.
  - donio 4y ago
    And it gets the keybinding wrong so it falls into the ignorance category. But at least we got M-x butterfly thanks to it.
    - benj111 4y ago
      Can you get a keybinding wrong for a command that doesn't exist?
      - Jorengarenar 4y ago
        What made you think it does not exist?
        benj111 4y ago
        Fair enough. What is the keybinding then?
andreareina 4y ago
I'm partial to escape-meta-alt-control-shift
funsevenshirt 4y ago
> Are there any good Emacs jokes No, there aren't.
distantsounds 4y ago
the only ignorance is from you, not realizing how much better literally any other text editor is
- nequo 4y ago
  > literally any other text editor Have you tried literally every other text editor? I switched from Vim. In Emacs, I can inline previews of LaTeX formulas in the same buffer as the one that I am editing. This is possible because Emacs has a GUI. Vim cannot do this because it runs in the terminal, and it also doesn’t seem possible to do this in gVim. Meanwhile Emacs implements Vim’s modal editing through evil mode. So for this use case, Emacs seems to be strictly better than Vim.
- pvaldes 4y ago
  Yup, those days of Joe and roses...

Are there any good Emacs jokes that aren't based on ignorance of Emacs?

by sping 4y ago

Are there any good Emacs jokes that aren't based on ignorance of Emacs?

ninjha01 4y ago

I could come up with one, but I’m too busy rewriting my config to use a better package manager again.

andreareina 4y ago
Oh no have we moved away from straight and use-package already?
- imaltont 4y ago
  Emacs 29 can download packages straight from their source too, so time to move back I guess.
bloopernova 4y ago
You need to install yak-shave-mode to make that more efficient.

donio 4y ago

Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping is pretty funny now that everything else needs several GB of memory. (But to be fair even a minimal Emacs is about 20MB RSS these days).

mftb 4y ago
Hmm, I can't get an RSS that small even with -nw (to use the client TUI), but leaving that aside, on my box just running GNU Emacs normally I get 88MB RSS, so maybe we just need to update the acronym. ;)
- donio 4y ago
  I had to rebuild it with everything turned off in ./configure to get that number.
  - mftb 4y ago
    Interesting, I was thinking it was probably a fork. Anyway good to know, ty.
Gordonjcp 4y ago
I think it's nuts that the Linux machine I run DaVinci Resolve on today has considerably more RAM than the Windows NT machine I used to use Premiere for editing on 22 years ago had hard disk space. Back then mine was the "scary" machine in the workshop with its AMD Duron 700 and a whopping 512MB of RAM... and Emacs was just about usable on it!

rnd0 4y ago

Yes. https://xkcd.com/378/ https://xkcd.com/378/

dicytea 4y ago
The fact that the punchline isn't a valid (or at least not a conventional) Emacs keybind still bugs me.
- moloch-hai 4y ago
  M-nerdsniping. He knew what he was doing.
rnd0 4y ago
Though technically it's a alpha nerd joke with an emacs punchline.
- donio 4y ago
  And it gets the keybinding wrong so it falls into the ignorance category. But at least we got M-x butterfly thanks to it.
  - benj111 4y ago
    Can you get a keybinding wrong for a command that doesn't exist?
    - Jorengarenar 4y ago
      What made you think it does not exist?
      - benj111 4y ago
        Fair enough. What is the keybinding then?

andreareina 4y ago

I'm partial to escape-meta-alt-control-shift

funsevenshirt 4y ago

> Are there any good Emacs jokes No, there aren't.

distantsounds 4y ago

the only ignorance is from you, not realizing how much better literally any other text editor is

nequo 4y ago
> literally any other text editor Have you tried literally every other text editor? I switched from Vim. In Emacs, I can inline previews of LaTeX formulas in the same buffer as the one that I am editing. This is possible because Emacs has a GUI. Vim cannot do this because it runs in the terminal, and it also doesn’t seem possible to do this in gVim. Meanwhile Emacs implements Vim’s modal editing through evil mode. So for this use case, Emacs seems to be strictly better than Vim.
pvaldes 4y ago
Yup, those days of Joe and roses...