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diff --git a/gemfeed/2008-06-26-perl-poetry.md b/gemfeed/2008-06-26-perl-poetry.md index 78fea52f..1f77d2f6 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2008-06-26-perl-poetry.md +++ b/gemfeed/2008-06-26-perl-poetry.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Perl Poetry -> Published by Paul at 2008-06-26, last updated at 2021-05-04 +> Published by Paul at 2008-06-26 23:43:51 CEST, last updated at 2021-05-04 ``` '\|/' * diff --git a/gemfeed/2008-12-29-using-my-nokia-n95-for-fixing-my-mta.md b/gemfeed/2008-12-29-using-my-nokia-n95-for-fixing-my-mta.md index 1aaff293..dc8fc329 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2008-12-29-using-my-nokia-n95-for-fixing-my-mta.md +++ b/gemfeed/2008-12-29-using-my-nokia-n95-for-fixing-my-mta.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Using my Nokia N95 for fixing my MTA -> Published by Paul at 2008-12-29, last updated at 2021-12-01 +> Published by Paul at 2008-12-29 11:10:41 CEST, last updated at 2021-12-01 ``` diff --git a/gemfeed/2010-04-09-standard-ml-and-haskell.md b/gemfeed/2010-04-09-standard-ml-and-haskell.md index ad96610a..ea58d92d 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2010-04-09-standard-ml-and-haskell.md +++ b/gemfeed/2010-04-09-standard-ml-and-haskell.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Standard ML and Haskell -> Published by Paul at 2010-04-09 +> Published by Paul at 2010-04-10 00:57:36 CEST I am currently looking into the functional programming language Standard ML (aka SML). The purpose is to refresh my functional programming skills and to learn something new too. Since I already knew a little Haskell, I could not help myself, and I also implemented the same exercises in Haskell. diff --git a/gemfeed/2010-05-07-lazy-evaluation-with-standarn-ml.md b/gemfeed/2010-05-07-lazy-evaluation-with-standarn-ml.md index 1f2f789b..2870f902 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2010-05-07-lazy-evaluation-with-standarn-ml.md +++ b/gemfeed/2010-05-07-lazy-evaluation-with-standarn-ml.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Lazy Evaluation with Standard ML -> Published by Paul at 2010-05-07 +> Published by Paul at 2010-05-07 10:17:59 CEST ``` diff --git a/gemfeed/2010-05-09-the-fype-programming-language.md b/gemfeed/2010-05-09-the-fype-programming-language.md index 0e3c9e79..f811f5da 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2010-05-09-the-fype-programming-language.md +++ b/gemfeed/2010-05-09-the-fype-programming-language.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # The Fype Programming Language -> Published by Paul at 2010-05-09, last updated at 2021-05-05 +> Published by Paul at 2010-05-09 14:48:29 CEST, last updated at 2021-05-05 ``` ____ _ __ diff --git a/gemfeed/2011-05-07-perl-daemon-service-framework.md b/gemfeed/2011-05-07-perl-daemon-service-framework.md index 2516fa42..e3292cf7 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2011-05-07-perl-daemon-service-framework.md +++ b/gemfeed/2011-05-07-perl-daemon-service-framework.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Perl Daemon (Service Framework) -> Published by Paul at 2011-05-07, last updated at 2021-05-07 +> Published by Paul at 2011-05-08 00:26:02 CEST, last updated at 2021-05-07 ``` a'! _,,_ a'! _,,_ a'! _,,_ diff --git a/gemfeed/2014-03-24-the-fibonacci.pl.c-polyglot.md b/gemfeed/2014-03-24-the-fibonacci.pl.c-polyglot.md index ef30c230..fe7c4eb9 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2014-03-24-the-fibonacci.pl.c-polyglot.md +++ b/gemfeed/2014-03-24-the-fibonacci.pl.c-polyglot.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # The fibonacci.pl.raku.c Polyglot -> Published by Paul at 2014-03-24, last updated 2022-04-23 +> Published by Paul at 2014-03-24 23:32:53 CEST, last updated at 2022-04-23 In computing, a polyglot is a computer program or script written in a valid form of multiple programming languages, which performs the same operations or output independent of the programming language used to compile or interpret it. diff --git a/gemfeed/2015-12-05-run-debian-on-your-phone-with-debroid.md b/gemfeed/2015-12-05-run-debian-on-your-phone-with-debroid.md index 76197427..027a02a2 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2015-12-05-run-debian-on-your-phone-with-debroid.md +++ b/gemfeed/2015-12-05-run-debian-on-your-phone-with-debroid.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Run Debian on your phone with Debroid -> Published by Paul at 2015-12-05, last updated at 2021-05-16 +> Published by Paul at 2015-12-05 18:12:57 CEST, last updated at 2021-05-16 ``` ____ _ _ _ diff --git a/gemfeed/2016-04-03-offsite-backup-with-zfs.md b/gemfeed/2016-04-03-offsite-backup-with-zfs.md index a8e04aa3..c81d1474 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2016-04-03-offsite-backup-with-zfs.md +++ b/gemfeed/2016-04-03-offsite-backup-with-zfs.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Offsite backup with ZFS -> Published by Paul at 2016-04-03 +> Published by Paul at 2016-04-04 00:43:42 GMT ``` ________________ diff --git a/gemfeed/2016-04-09-jails-and-zfs-on-freebsd-with-puppet.md b/gemfeed/2016-04-09-jails-and-zfs-on-freebsd-with-puppet.md index 74b22f65..ad80d6af 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2016-04-09-jails-and-zfs-on-freebsd-with-puppet.md +++ b/gemfeed/2016-04-09-jails-and-zfs-on-freebsd-with-puppet.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Jails and ZFS with Puppet on FreeBSD -> Published by Paul at 2016-04-09 +> Published by Paul at 2016-04-09 20:29:47 GMT ``` __ __ diff --git a/gemfeed/2016-04-16-offsite-backup-with-zfs-part2.md b/gemfeed/2016-04-16-offsite-backup-with-zfs-part2.md index 008691ea..84030eb6 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2016-04-16-offsite-backup-with-zfs-part2.md +++ b/gemfeed/2016-04-16-offsite-backup-with-zfs-part2.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Offsite backup with ZFS (Part 2) -> Published by Paul at 2016-04-16 +> Published by Paul at 2016-04-17 00:43:42 GMT ``` ________________ diff --git a/gemfeed/2016-05-22-spinning-up-my-own-authoritative-dns-servers.md b/gemfeed/2016-05-22-spinning-up-my-own-authoritative-dns-servers.md index 7d3a65c0..dfb89097 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2016-05-22-spinning-up-my-own-authoritative-dns-servers.md +++ b/gemfeed/2016-05-22-spinning-up-my-own-authoritative-dns-servers.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Spinning up my own authoritative DNS servers -> Published by Paul at 2016-05-22 +> Published by Paul at 2016-05-22 20:59:01 GMT ## Background diff --git a/gemfeed/2016-11-20-object-oriented-programming-with-ansi-c.md b/gemfeed/2016-11-20-object-oriented-programming-with-ansi-c.md index adf9d157..71d5174a 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2016-11-20-object-oriented-programming-with-ansi-c.md +++ b/gemfeed/2016-11-20-object-oriented-programming-with-ansi-c.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Object oriented programming with ANSI C -> Published by Paul at 2016-11-20, updated 2022-01-29 +> Published by Paul at 2016-11-21 00:10:57 GMT, updated 2022-01-29 ``` ___ ___ ____ ____ diff --git a/gemfeed/2018-06-01-realistic-load-testing-with-ioriot-for-linux.md b/gemfeed/2018-06-01-realistic-load-testing-with-ioriot-for-linux.md index 3788bd32..eaf80a50 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2018-06-01-realistic-load-testing-with-ioriot-for-linux.md +++ b/gemfeed/2018-06-01-realistic-load-testing-with-ioriot-for-linux.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Realistic load testing with I/O Riot for Linux -> Published by Paul at 2018-06-01, last updated at 2021-05-08 +> Published by Paul at 2018-06-01 16:50:29 GMT, last updated at 2021-05-08 ``` .---. diff --git a/gemfeed/2021-04-22-dtail-the-distributed-log-tail-program.md b/gemfeed/2021-04-22-dtail-the-distributed-log-tail-program.md index cf2c0244..45e9cd0a 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2021-04-22-dtail-the-distributed-log-tail-program.md +++ b/gemfeed/2021-04-22-dtail-the-distributed-log-tail-program.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # DTail - The distributed log tail program -> Published by Paul at 2021-04-22, last updated at 2021-04-26 +> Published by Paul at 2021-04-22 21:28:41 GMT, last updated at 2021-04-26 [](./2021-04-22-dtail-the-distributed-log-tail-program/title.png) diff --git a/gemfeed/2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace.md b/gemfeed/2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace.md index f4c18cd8..9741dc75 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace.md +++ b/gemfeed/2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Welcome to the Geminispace -> Published by Paul at 2021-04-24, last updated at 2021-06-18, ASCII Art by Andy Hood +> Published by Paul at 2021-04-24 21:28:41 GMT, last updated at 2021-06-18, ASCII Art by Andy Hood Have you reached this article already via Gemini? It requires a Gemini client; web browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc., don't support the Gemini protocol. The Gemini address of this site (or the address of this capsule as people say in Geminispace) is: diff --git a/gemfeed/2021-05-16-personal-bash-coding-style-guide.md b/gemfeed/2021-05-16-personal-bash-coding-style-guide.md index 6cf38479..9c50fef4 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2021-05-16-personal-bash-coding-style-guide.md +++ b/gemfeed/2021-05-16-personal-bash-coding-style-guide.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Personal Bash coding style guide -> Published by Paul at 2021-05-16 +> Published by Paul at 2021-05-16 16:51:57 GMT ``` .---------------------------. diff --git a/gemfeed/2021-06-05-gemtexter-one-bash-script-to-rule-it-all.md b/gemfeed/2021-06-05-gemtexter-one-bash-script-to-rule-it-all.md index b7d565ca..facc138f 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2021-06-05-gemtexter-one-bash-script-to-rule-it-all.md +++ b/gemfeed/2021-06-05-gemtexter-one-bash-script-to-rule-it-all.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Gemtexter - One Bash script to rule it all -> Published by Paul at 2021-06-05 +> Published by Paul at 2021-06-05 21:03:32 GMT ``` o .,<>., o diff --git a/gemfeed/2021-07-04-the-well-grounded-rubyist.md b/gemfeed/2021-07-04-the-well-grounded-rubyist.md index c89da5af..b2478d32 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2021-07-04-the-well-grounded-rubyist.md +++ b/gemfeed/2021-07-04-the-well-grounded-rubyist.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # The Well-Grounded Rubyist -> Published by Paul at 2021-07-04 +> Published by Paul at 2021-07-04 12:51:23 GMT When I was a Linux System Administrator, I have been programming in Perl for years. I still maintain some personal Perl programming projects (e.g. Xerl, guprecords, Loadbars). After switching jobs a couple of years ago (becoming a Site Reliability Engineer), I found Ruby (and some Python) widely used there. As I wanted to do something new, I decided to give Ruby a go. diff --git a/gemfeed/2021-08-01-on-being-pedantic-about-open-source.md b/gemfeed/2021-08-01-on-being-pedantic-about-open-source.md index 4106af51..5ab1f85e 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2021-08-01-on-being-pedantic-about-open-source.md +++ b/gemfeed/2021-08-01-on-being-pedantic-about-open-source.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # On being Pedantic about Open-Source -> Published by Paul at 2021-08-01 +> Published by Paul at 2021-08-01 10:37:58 GMT ``` __ diff --git a/gemfeed/2021-09-12-keep-it-simple-and-stupid.md b/gemfeed/2021-09-12-keep-it-simple-and-stupid.md index 165ad8fa..8bf5c12e 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2021-09-12-keep-it-simple-and-stupid.md +++ b/gemfeed/2021-09-12-keep-it-simple-and-stupid.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Keep it simple and stupid -> Published by Paul at 2021-09-12, last updated at 2022-04-21 +> Published by Paul at 2021-09-12 09:39:20 GMT, last updated at 2022-04-21 ``` _______________ |*\_/*|_______ diff --git a/gemfeed/2021-10-22-defensive-devops.md b/gemfeed/2021-10-22-defensive-devops.md index 6b05100c..b2cd7603 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2021-10-22-defensive-devops.md +++ b/gemfeed/2021-10-22-defensive-devops.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Defensive DevOps -> Published by Paul at 2021-10-22 +> Published by Paul at 2021-10-22 10:02:46 GMT ``` c=====e diff --git a/gemfeed/2021-11-29-bash-golf-part-1.md b/gemfeed/2021-11-29-bash-golf-part-1.md index 567894ec..7fd1ad2b 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2021-11-29-bash-golf-part-1.md +++ b/gemfeed/2021-11-29-bash-golf-part-1.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Bash Golf Part 1 -> Published by Paul at 2021-11-29, last updated at 2022-01-05 +> Published by Paul at 2021-11-29 16:06:14 GMT, last updated at 2022-01-05 ``` diff --git a/gemfeed/2021-12-26-how-to-stay-sane-as-a-devops-person.md b/gemfeed/2021-12-26-how-to-stay-sane-as-a-devops-person.md index a933a805..691b1de9 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2021-12-26-how-to-stay-sane-as-a-devops-person.md +++ b/gemfeed/2021-12-26-how-to-stay-sane-as-a-devops-person.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # How to stay sane as a DevOps person -> Published by Paul at 2021-12-26, last updated at 2022-01-12 +> Published by Paul at 2021-12-26 14:02:02 GMT, last updated at 2022-01-12 ``` ) diff --git a/gemfeed/2022-01-01-bash-golf-part-2.md b/gemfeed/2022-01-01-bash-golf-part-2.md index 78e52420..437d31ce 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2022-01-01-bash-golf-part-2.md +++ b/gemfeed/2022-01-01-bash-golf-part-2.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Bash Golf Part 2 -> Published by Paul at 2022-01-01, last updated at 2022-01-05 +> Published by Paul at 2022-01-02 01:36:15 GMT, last updated at 2022-01-05 ``` diff --git a/gemfeed/2022-01-23-welcome-to-the-foo.zone.md b/gemfeed/2022-01-23-welcome-to-the-foo.zone.md index c5794edd..e49b86e2 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2022-01-23-welcome-to-the-foo.zone.md +++ b/gemfeed/2022-01-23-welcome-to-the-foo.zone.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Welcome to the foo.zone -> Published by Paul at 2022-01-23 +> Published by Paul at 2022-01-23 18:42:04 GMT ``` __ diff --git a/gemfeed/2022-02-04-computer-operating-systems-i-use.md b/gemfeed/2022-02-04-computer-operating-systems-i-use.md index 9f6e7430..3f335d53 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2022-02-04-computer-operating-systems-i-use.md +++ b/gemfeed/2022-02-04-computer-operating-systems-i-use.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Computer operating systems I use(d) -> Published by Paul at 2022-02-04, updated 2022-02-18 +> Published by Paul at 2022-02-04 11:58:22 GMT, updated 2022-02-18 ``` /( )` diff --git a/gemfeed/2022-03-06-the-release-of-dtail-4.0.0.md b/gemfeed/2022-03-06-the-release-of-dtail-4.0.0.md index 5a02236e..c94509d5 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2022-03-06-the-release-of-dtail-4.0.0.md +++ b/gemfeed/2022-03-06-the-release-of-dtail-4.0.0.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # The release of DTail 4.0.0 -> Published by Paul at 2022-03-06 +> Published by Paul at 2022-03-06 20:11:39 GMT ``` ,_---~~~~~----._ diff --git a/gemfeed/2022-04-10-creative-universe.md b/gemfeed/2022-04-10-creative-universe.md index 07abbd44..a95b3516 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2022-04-10-creative-universe.md +++ b/gemfeed/2022-04-10-creative-universe.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Creative universe -> Published by Paul at 2022-04-10, last updated at 2022-04-18 +> Published by Paul at 2022-04-10 12:09:11 GMT, last updated at 2022-04-18 ``` . + . . . . . . diff --git a/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.md b/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.md index b09a7c06..1382e6a2 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.md +++ b/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.md @@ -1,16 +1,16 @@ # Perl is still a great choice -> Published by Paul at 2022-05-27, Comic source: XKCD +> Published by Paul at 2022-05-27, last updated at 2022-12-10 Comic source: XKCD [](./2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice/regular_expressions.png) -Perl (the Practical Extraction and Report Language) is a battle-tested, mature, multi-paradigm dynamic programming language. Note that it's not called PERL, neither P.E.R.L. nor Pearl. "Perl" is the name of the language and "perl" the name of the interpreter or the interpreter command. +Perl (the Practical Extraction and Report Language) is a battle-tested, mature, multi-paradigm dynamic programming language. Note that it's not called PERL, neither P.E.R.L. nor Pearl. "Perl" is the name of the language and `perl` the name of the interpreter or the interpreter command. Unfortunately (it makes me sad), Perl's popularity has been declining over the last years as Google trends shows: [](./2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice/googletrendsperl.jpg) -So why is that? Once the de-facto standard super-glue language for the web nowadays seems to have a bad repetition. Often, people state: +So why is that? Once the de-facto standard super-glue language for the web nowadays seems to have a bad reputation. Often, people state: * Perl is a write-only language. Nobody can read Perl code. * Perl? Isn't it abandoned? It's still at version 5! @@ -66,16 +66,20 @@ So it means that Perl and Raku now exist in parallel. They influence each other, [The OpenBSD Operating System](https://www.OpenBSD.org) [Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installation?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23360338) -The renaming of Perl 6 to Raku has now opened the door for a future Perl 7. As far as I understand, Perl 7 will be Perl 5 but with modern features enabled by default (e.g. pragmas "use strict; use warnings; use signatures;" and so on. Also, the hope is that a Perl 7 with modern standards will attract more beginners. There aren't many Perl jobs out there nowadays. That's mostly due to Perl's bad (bad for no real reasons) repetition. +The renaming of Perl 6 to Raku has now opened the door for a future Perl 7. As far as I understand, Perl 7 will be Perl 5 but with modern features enabled by default (e.g. pragmas `use strict;`, `use warnings;`, `use signatures;` and so on. Also, the hope is that a Perl 7 with modern standards will attract more beginners. There aren't many Perl jobs out there nowadays. That's mostly due to Perl's bad (bad for no real reasons) reputation. + +> Update 2022-12-10: A reader pointed out, that `use v5.36;` already turns strict, warnings and signatures pragmas automatically on! [Announcing Perl 7](https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/) -[What happened to Perl 7? (maybe have to use "use v7;")](http://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2022/05/what-happened-to-perl-7.html) +[What happened to Perl 7? (maybe have to use `use v7;`)](http://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2022/05/what-happened-to-perl-7.html) + +> Update 2022-12-10: A reader pointed out, that Perl 7 needs to provide a big improvement to earn and keep the attention for a major version bump. ## Why use Perl as there are better alternatives? Here, common sense must be applied. I don't believe there is anything like "the perfect" programming language. Everyone has got his preferred (or a set of preferred) programming language to chose from. All programming languages come with their own set of strengths and weaknesses. These are the strengths making Perl shine, and you (technically) don't need to bother to look for "better" alternatives: -* Perl is better than Shell/awk/sed scripts. There's a point where shell scripts become fairly complex. The next step-up is to switch to Perl. There are many different versions of shells and awk and sed interpreters. Do you always know which versions (mawk, nawk, gawk, sed, gsed, ...) are currently installed? These commands aren't fully compatible to each other. However, there is only one Perl 5. Simply: Perl is faster, more powerful, more expressive than any shell script can ever be, and it is also extendible through CPAN. Perl can directly talk to databases, which shell scripts can't. +* Perl is better than Shell/AWK/SED scripts. There's a point where shell scripts become fairly complex. The next step-up is to switch to Perl. There are many different versions of shells and AWK and SED interpreters. Do you always know which versions (`mawk`, `nawk`, `gawk`, `sed`, `gsed`, `grep`, `ggrep`...) are currently installed? These commands aren't fully compatible to each other. However, there is only one Perl 5. Simply: Perl is faster, more powerful, more expressive than any shell script can ever be, and it is also extendible through CPAN. Perl can directly talk to databases, which shell scripts can't. * Perl code tends to be compact so that it's much better suitable for "shell scripting" and quick "one-liners" than other languages. In my own experience: Ruby and Python code tends to blow up quickly. It doesn't mean that Ruby and Python are not suitable for this task, but I think Perl does much better. * Perl 5 has proven itself for decades and is a very stable/robust language. It is a battle-tested and mature as something can ever become. * Perl is the reference standard for regular expressions. Even so much that there is a PCRE library (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) used by many other languages now. Perl fully integrates regular expression syntax into the language, which doesn't feel like an odd add-on like in most other languages. @@ -96,13 +100,13 @@ Here are some reasons why not to chose Perl and look for "better" alternatives: * It's possible to write large programs in Perl (make difficult things possible), but it might not be the best choice here. This also leads back to the clunky object system Perl has. You could write your projects in a procedural or functional style (Perl perfectly fits here), but OOP seems to be the gold standard for large projects nowadays. Functional programming requires a different mindset, and pure procedural programming lacks abstractions. * Apply common sense. What is the skill set your team has? What's already widely used and supported at work? Which languages comes with the best modules for the things you want to work on? Maybe Python is the answer (better machine learning modules). Maybe Perl is the better choice (better Bioinformatic modules). Perhaps Ruby is already the de-facto standard at work and everyone knows at least a little Ruby (as it happened to be at my workplace) and Ruby is "good enough" for all the tasks already. But that's not a hindrance to throw in a Perl one-liner once in a while :P. -[Cor - A minimal object system for the Perl core - proposal](https://gist.github.com/Ovid/68b33259cb81c01f9a51612c7a294ede) +[Cor - Bringing modern OOP to the Perl Core](https://github.com/Ovid/Cor) ## Why all the sigils? It looks like an exploding ASCII factory!! -The sigils $ @ % & (where Perl is famously known for) serve a purpose. They seem confusing at first, but they actually make the code better readable. $scalar is a scalar variable (holding a single value), @array is an array (holding a list of values), %hash holds a list of key-value pairs and &sub is for subroutines. A given variable $ref can also hold reference to something. @$arrayref dereferences a reference to an array, %$hashref to a hash, $$scalarref to a scalar, &$subref dereferences a referene to a subroutine, etc. That can be encapsulated as deep as you want. (This paragraph only scratched the surface here of what Perl can do, and there is a lot of syntactic sugar not mentioned here). +The sigils `$ @ % &` (where Perl is famously known for) serve a purpose. They seem confusing at first, but they actually make the code better readable. `$scalar` is a scalar variable (holding a single value), `@array` is an array (holding a list of values), %hash holds a list of key-value pairs and `&sub` is for subroutines. A given variable `$ref` can also hold reference to something. `@$arrayref` dereferences a reference to an array, `%$hashref` to a hash, `$$scalarref` to a scalar, `&$subref` dereferences a referene to a subroutine, etc. That can be encapsulated as deep as you want. (This paragraph only scratched the surface here of what Perl can do, and there is a lot of syntactic sugar not mentioned here). -In most other programming languages, you won't know instantly what's the "basic type" of a given variable without looking at the variable declaration or the variable name (If named intelligently, e.g. a variable name containing a list of socks is "sock_list"). Even Ruby makes some use of sigils (@ @@ an $), but that's for a different purpose than in Perl (in Ruby it is about object scope, class scope and global scope). Raku uses all the sigils Perl uses plus an additional bunch of twigils, e.g. $.foo for a scalar object variable with public accessors, $!foo for a private scalar object variable, @.foo, @!foo, %.foo, %!foo and so on. Sigils (and twigils) are very convenient once you get used to them. Don't let them scare you off - they are there to help you! +In most other programming languages, you won't know instantly what's the "basic type" of a given variable without looking at the variable declaration or the variable name (If named intelligently, e.g. a variable name containing a list of socks is "sock_list"). Even Ruby makes some use of sigils (`@`, `@@` and `$`), but that's for a different purpose than in Perl (in Ruby it is about object scope, class scope and global scope). Raku uses all the sigils Perl uses plus an additional bunch of twigils, e.g. `$.foo` for a scalar object variable with public accessors, $!foo for a private scalar object variable, `@.foo`, `@!foo`, `%.foo`, `%!foo` and so on. Sigils (and twigils) are very convenient once you get used to them. Don't let them scare you off - they are there to help you! [https://www.perl.com/article/on-sigils/](https://www.perl.com/article/on-sigils/) @@ -121,5 +125,3 @@ Btw.: Did you know that the first version of PHP was a set of Perl snippets? Onl E-Mail your comments to paul at buetow dot org! :-) [Go back to the main site](../) - - diff --git a/gemfeed/2022-06-15-sweating-the-small-stuff.md b/gemfeed/2022-06-15-sweating-the-small-stuff.md index 45021398..a4f0f9a5 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2022-06-15-sweating-the-small-stuff.md +++ b/gemfeed/2022-06-15-sweating-the-small-stuff.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Sweating the small stuff - Tiny projects of mine -> Published by Paul at 2022-06-15, last updated at 2022-06-18 +> Published by Paul at 2022-06-15 10:47:44 GMT, last updated at 2022-06-18 ``` _ diff --git a/gemfeed/2022-07-30-lets-encrypt-with-openbsd-and-rex.md b/gemfeed/2022-07-30-lets-encrypt-with-openbsd-and-rex.md index af6dcf31..9282885b 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2022-07-30-lets-encrypt-with-openbsd-and-rex.md +++ b/gemfeed/2022-07-30-lets-encrypt-with-openbsd-and-rex.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Let's Encrypt with OpenBSD and Rex -> Published by Paul at 2022-07-30 +> Published by Paul at 2022-07-30 14:14:31 EEST ``` / _ \ diff --git a/gemfeed/2022-08-27-gemtexter-1.1.0-lets-gemtext-again.md b/gemfeed/2022-08-27-gemtexter-1.1.0-lets-gemtext-again.md index ecf50452..ea8a58c1 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2022-08-27-gemtexter-1.1.0-lets-gemtext-again.md +++ b/gemfeed/2022-08-27-gemtexter-1.1.0-lets-gemtext-again.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Gemtexter 1.1.0 - Let's Gemtext again -> Published by Paul at 2022-08-27 +> Published by Paul at 2022-08-27 20:25:57 EEST ``` -=[ typewriter ]=- 1/98 diff --git a/gemfeed/2022-09-30-after-a-bad-nights-sleep.md b/gemfeed/2022-09-30-after-a-bad-nights-sleep.md index c01cdca6..512f290e 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2022-09-30-after-a-bad-nights-sleep.md +++ b/gemfeed/2022-09-30-after-a-bad-nights-sleep.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # After a bad night's sleep -> Published by Paul at 2022-09-30, last updated 2022-10-12 +> Published by Paul at 2022-09-30 09:53:23 EEST, last updated at 2022-10-12 ``` z diff --git a/gemfeed/2022-10-30-installing-dtail-on-openbsd.md b/gemfeed/2022-10-30-installing-dtail-on-openbsd.md index ffb30833..064b328a 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2022-10-30-installing-dtail-on-openbsd.md +++ b/gemfeed/2022-10-30-installing-dtail-on-openbsd.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Installing DTail on OpenBSD -> Published by Paul at 2022-10-28 +> Published by Paul at 2022-10-30 11:03:19 EET ``` ,_---~~~~~----._ diff --git a/gemfeed/2022-11-24-i-tried-emacs-but-i-switched-back-to-neovim.md b/gemfeed/2022-11-24-i-tried-emacs-but-i-switched-back-to-neovim.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e8710387 --- /dev/null +++ b/gemfeed/2022-11-24-i-tried-emacs-but-i-switched-back-to-neovim.md @@ -0,0 +1,179 @@ +# I tried (Doom) Emacs, but I switched back to (Neo)Vim + +> Published by Paul at 2022-11-24 11:17:15 EET, last updated at 2022-11-26 + +``` + _/ \ _(\(o + / \ / _ ^^^o + / ! \/ ! '!!!v' + ! ! \ _' ( \____ + ! . \ _!\ \===^\) +Art by \ \_! / __! + Gunnar Z. \! / \ <--- Emacs is a giant dragon + (\_ _/ _\ ) + \ ^^--^^ __-^ /(__ + ^^----^^ "^--v' +``` + +As a long-lasting user of Vim (and NeoVim), I always wondered what GNU Emacs is really about, so I decided to try it. I didn't try vanilla GNU Emacs, but Doom Emacs. I chose Doom Emacs as it is a neat distribution of Emacs with Evil mode enabled by default. Evil mode allows Vi(m) key bindings (so to speak, it's emulating Vim within Emacs), and I am pretty sure I won't be ready to give up all the muscle memory I have built over more than a decade. + +[GNU Emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) +[Doom Emacs](https://github.com/doomemacs/) + +I used Doom Emacs for around two months. Still, ultimately I decided to switch back to NeoVim as my primary editor and IDE and Vim (usually pre-installed on Linux-based systems) and Nvi (usually pre-installed on *BSD systems) as my "always available editor" for quick edits. (It is worth mentioning that I don't have a high opinion on whether Vim or NeoVim is the better editor, I prefer NeoVim as it comes with better defaults out of the box, but there is no real blocker to use Vim instead). + +[Vim](https://www.vim.org) +[NeoVim](https://neovim.io) + +So why did I switch back to the Vi-family? + +## Emacs is a giant dragon + +Emacs feels like a giant dragon as it is much more than an editor or an integrated development environment. Emacs is a whole platform on its own. There's an E-Mail client, an IRC client, or even games you can run within Emacs. And you can also change Emacs within Emacs using its own Lisp dialect, Emacs Lisp (Emacs is programmed in Emacs Lisp). Therefore, Emacs is also its own programming language. You can change every aspect of Emacs within Emacs itself. People jokingly state Emacs is an operating system and that you should directly use it as the `init 1` process (if you don't know what the `init 1` process is: Under UNIX and similar operating systems, it's the very first userland processed launched. That's usually `systemd` on Linux-based systems, `launchd` on macOS, or any other init script or init system used by the OS)! + +In many aspects, Emacs is like shooting at everything with a bazooka! However, I prefer it simple. I only wanted Emacs to be a good editor (which it is, too), but there's too much other stuff in Emacs that I don't need to care about! Vim and NeoVim do one thing excellent: Being great text editors and, when loaded with plugins, decent IDEs, too. + +## Magit love + +I almost fell in love with Magit, an integrated Git client for Emacs. But I think the best way to interact with Git is to use the `git` command line directly. I don't worry about typing out all the commands, as the most commonly used commands are in my shell history. Other useful Git programs I use frequently are `bit` and `tig`. Also, get a mechanical keyboard that makes hammering whole commands into the terminal even more enjoyable. + +[Magit](https://magit.vc/) +[Tig](https://github.com/jonas/tig) + +Magit is pretty neat for basic Git operations, but I found myself searching the internet for the correct sub-commands to do the things I wanted to do in Git. Mainly, the way how branches are managed is confusing. Often, I fell back to the command line to fix up the mess I produced with Magit (e.g. accidentally pushing to the wrong remote branch, so I found myself fixing things manually on the terminal with the `git` command with forced pushes....). Magit is hotkey driven, and common commands are quickly explorable through built-in hotkey menus. Still, I found it challenging to navigate to more advanced Git sub-commands that way which was much easier accomplished by using the `git` command directly. + +## Graphical UI + +If there is one thing I envy about Emacs is that it's a graphical program, whereas the Vi-family of editors are purely terminal-based. I see the benefits of being a graphical program as this enables the use of multiple fonts simultaneously to embed pictures and graphs (that would be neat as a Markdown preview, for example). There's also GVim (Vim with GTK UI), but that's more of an afterthought. + +There are now graphical front-end clients for NeoVim, but I still need to dig into them. Let me know your experience if you have one. Luckily, I don't rely on something graphical in my text editor, but it would improve how the editor looks and feels. UTF8 can already do a lot in the terminal, and terminal emulators also allow you to use TrueType fonts. Still, you will always be limited to one TTF font for the whole terminal, and it isn't possible to have, for example, a different font for headings, paragraphs, etc... you get the idea. TTF+UTF8 can't beat authentic graphics. + +## Scripting it + +It is possible to customize every aspect of Emacs through Emacs Lisp. I have done some Elk Scheme programming in the past (a dialect of Lisp), but that was a long time ago, and I am not willing to dive here again to customize my environment. I would instead take the pragmatic approach and script what I need in VimScript (a terrible language, but it gets the job done!). I watched Damian Conway's VimScript course on O'Reilly Safari Books Online, which I greatly recommend. Yes, VimScript feels clunky, funky and weird and is far less elegant than Lisp, but it gets its job done - in most cases! (That reminds me that the Vim team has announced a new major version of VimScript with improvements and language changes made - I haven't gotten to it yet - but I assume that VimScript will always stay VimScript). + +[Emacs Lisp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs_Lisp) +[Elk Scheme](http://sam.zoy.org/elk/) +[VimScript](http://vimscript.org/) +[Scripting Vim by Damian Conway](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/scripting-vim/9781491996287/) + +NeoVim is also programmable with Lua, which seems to be a step up and Vim comes with a Perl plugin API (which was removed from NeoVim, but that is a different story - why would someone remove the most potent mature text manipulation programming language from one of the most powerful text editors?). + +[NeoVim Lua API](https://neovim.io/doc/user/lua.html) + +One example is my workflow of how I compose my blog articles (e.g. this one you are currently reading): I am writing everything in NeoVim, but I also want to have every paragraph checked against Grammarly (as English is not my first language). So I write a whole paragraph, then I select the entire paragraph via visual selection with `SHIFT+v`, and then I press `,y` to yank the paragraph to the systems clipboard, then I paste the paragraph to Grammarly's browser window with `CTRL+v`, let Grammarly suggest the improvements, and then I copy the result back with `CTRL+c` to the system clipboard and in NeoVim I type `,i` to insert the result back overriding the old paragraph (which is still selected in visual mode) with the new content. That all sounds a bit complicated, but it's surprisingly natural and efficient. + +To come back to the example, for the clipboard integration, I use this small VimScript snippet, and I didn't have to dig into any Lisp or Perl for this: +``` +" Clipboard +vnoremap ,y !pbcopy<CR>ugv +vnoremap ,i !pbpaste<CR> +nmap ,i !wpbpaste<CR> +``` + +That's only a very few lines and does precisely what I want. It's quick and dirty but get's the job done! If VimScript becomes too cumbersome, I can use Lua for NeoVim scripting. + +## The famous Emacs Org mode + +Org-mode is an Emacs mode for keeping notes, authoring documents, computational notebooks, literate programming, maintaining to-do lists, planning projects, and more — in a fast and effective plain-text system. There's even a dedicated website for it: + +[https://orgmode.org/](https://orgmode.org/) + +In short, Org-mode is an "interactive markup language" that helps you organize everything mentioned above. I rarely touched the surface during my two-month experiment with Emacs, and I am impressed by it, so I see the benefits of having that. But it's not for me. + +I use "Dead Tree Mode" to organize my work and notes. Dead tree? Yeah, I use an actual pen and a real paper journal (Leuchtturm or a Moleskine and a set of coloured `0.5` Muji Pens are excellent choices). That's far more immersive and flexible than a computer program can ever be. Yes, some automation and interaction with the computer (like calendar scheduling etc.) are missing. Still, an actual paper journal forces you to stay simple and focus on the actual work rather than tinkering with your computer program. (But I could not resist, and I wrote a VimScript which parses a table of contents page in Markdown format of my scanned paper journals, and NeoVim allows me to select a topic so that the corresponding PDF scan on the right journal page gets opened in an external PDF viewer (the PDF viewer is `zathura`, it uses Vi-keybindings, of course) :-). (See the appendix of this blog post for that script). + +[Zathura](https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/) + +On the road, I also write some of my notes in Markdown format to NextCloud Notes, which is editable from my phone and via NeoVim on my computers. Markdown is much less powerful than Org-mode, but I prefer it the simple way. There's a neat terminal application, `ranger`, which I use to browse my NextCloud Notes when they are synced to a local folder on my machine. `ranger` is a file manager inspired by Vim and therefore makes use of Vim keybindings and it feels just natural to me. + +[Ranger - A Vim inspired file manager](https://github.com/ranger/ranger) +Did I mention that I also use my `zsh` (my default shell) and my `tmux` (terminal multiplexer) in Vi-mode? + +[Z shell](https://zsh.sourceforge.io/) +[tmux terminal multiplexer](https://github.com/tmux/tmux) + +## Seeking simplicity + +I am not ready to dive deep into the whole world of Emacs. I prefer small and simple tools as opposed to complex tools. Emacs comes with many features out of the box, whereas in Vim/NeoVim, you would need to install many plugins to replicate some of the behaviour. Yes, I need to invest time managing all the Vim/NeoVim plugins I use, but I feel more in control compared to Doom Emacs, where a framework around vanilla Emacs manages all the plugins. I could use vanilla Emacs and manage all my plugins the vanilla way, but for me, it's not worth the effort to learn and dive into that as all that I want to do I can already do with Vim/NeoVim. + +I am not saying that Vim/NeoVim are simple programs, but they are much simpler than Emacs with much smaller footprints; furthermore, they appear to be more straightforward as I am used to them. I only need Vim/NeoVim to be an editor, an IDE (through some plugins), and nothing more. + +## Conclusion + +I understand the Emacs users now. Emacs is an incredibly powerful platform for almost everything, not just text editing. With Emacs, you can do nearly everything (Writing, editing, programming, calendar scheduling and note taking, Jira integration, playing games, listening to music, reading/writing emails, browsing the web, using as a calculator, generating HTML pages, configuring interactive menus, jumping around between every feature and every file within one single session, chat on IRC, surf the Gopherspace, ... the options are endless....). If you want to have one piece of software which rules it all and you are happy to invest a large part of your time in your platform: Pick Emacs, and over time Emacs will become "your" Emacs, customized to your own needs and change the way it works, which makes the Emacs users stick even more to it. + +Vim/NeoVim also comes with a very high degree of customization options, but to a lesser extreme than Emacs (but still, a much higher degree than most other editors out there). If you want the best text editor in the world, which can also be tweaked to be a decent IDE, you are only looking for: Pick Vim or NeoVim! You would also need to invest a lot of time in learning, tweaking and customizing Vim/NeoVim, but that's a little more straightforward, and the result is much more lightweight once you get used to the "Vi way of doing things" you never would want to change back. I haven't tried the Emacs vanilla keystrokes, but they are terrible (that's probably one of the reasons why Doom Emacs uses Vim keybindings by default). + +> Update: One reader recommended to have a look at NvChad. NvChad is a NeoVim config written in Lua aiming to provide a base configuration with very beautiful UI and blazing fast startuptime (around `0.02` secs ~ `0.07` secs). They tweak UI plugins such as telescope, nvim-tree, bufferline etc well to provide an aesthetic UI experience. That sounds interesting! + +[https://github.com/NvChad/NvChad](https://github.com/NvChad/NvChad) + +E-Mail your comments to paul at buetow dot org! :-) + +[Go back to the main site](../) + +# Appendix + +This is the VimScript I mentioned earlier, which parses a table of contents index of my scanned paper journals and opens the corresponding PDF at the right page in `zathura`: + +``` +function! ReadJournalPageNumber() + let page = expand("<cword>") + if page !~# '^\d\+$' + for str in split(getline("."), "[ ,]") + if str =~# '^\d\+$' + let page = str + break + end + endfor + endif + return page +endfunction + +function! ReadJournalMeta() + normal! mj + + 1/MetaFilePath:/ + normal! 3w + let s:metaFilePath = expand("<cWORD>") + echom s:metaFilePath + + 1/MetaOffset:/ + normal! 3w + let s:metaOffset = expand("<cword>") + echom s:metaOffset + + 1/MetaPageAtOffset:/ + normal! 3w + let s:metaPageAtOffset = expand("<cword>") + echom s:metaPageAtOffset + + 1/MetaPagesPerScan:/ + normal! 3w + let s:metaPagesPerScan = expand("<cword>") + echom s:metaPagesPerScan + + normal! `j +endfunction + +function! GetPdfPage(page) + return s:metaOffset + (a:page - s:metaPageAtOffset) / s:metaPagesPerScan +endfunction + +function! OpenJournalPage() + let page = ReadJournalPageNumber() + if page !~# '^\d\+$' + echoerr "Could not identify Journal page number" + end + call ReadJournalMeta() + let pdfPage = GetPdfPage(page) + echon "Location is " . s:metaFilePath . ":" . pdfPage + call system("zathura --mode fullscreen -P " . pdfPage . " " . s:metaFilePath) + " call system("evince -p " . pdfPage . " " . s:metaFilePath) +endfunction + +nmap ,j :call OpenJournalPage()<CR> +``` + +[Go back to the main site](../) diff --git a/gemfeed/DRAFT-i-tried-doom-emacs-but-i-switched-back-to-vim.md b/gemfeed/DRAFT-i-tried-doom-emacs-but-i-switched-back-to-vim.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..411df5a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/gemfeed/DRAFT-i-tried-doom-emacs-but-i-switched-back-to-vim.md @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +# I tried Doom Emacs, but I switched back to (Neo)Vim + +As a long-lasting user of Vim (and NeoVim), I always wondered what the fuzz about Emacs is about! So I decided to give Emacs a try. I tried out Emacs, but Doom Emacs and not vanilla Emacs. I chose Doom Emacs as it is a pretty neat distribution of Emacs with `Evil mode` enabled by default. `Evil mode` allows Vi(m) key bindings, and I am pretty sure I won't be ready to give up all the Vi muscle memory I have built over more than ten years. + +I used Doom Emacs for around two months, but ultimately I decided to switch back to NeoVim as my primary editor and IDE and Vim as my "always available editor" for quick edits. So why is that? + +## Emacs is a monster + +Emacs feels like a monster as it is much more than an editor or an integrated development environment. Emacs is a whole platform on its own. There's an E-Mail client, an IRC client, or even games you can run within Emacs. And you can also change Emacs within Emacs using its own `Lisp` dialect, `Emacs Lisp`. Therefore, Emacs is also its own programming language... You can change every aspect of Emacs within Emacs. People jokingly state Emacs is an operating system and that you should directly boot into Emacs as the init 1 process! + +In many aspects, Emacs is like shooting at everything with a rail gun! However, I prefer it simple. I only wanted Emacs to be a good editor (which it is, too), but there's too much other stuff in Emacs that I, frankly, don't care about! Vim and NeoVim do one thing excellent: Being great text editors and, when loaded with plugins, a decent IDEs, too. Yes, `VimScript`, to program the editor, feels clunky and is by far not as elegant as `Emacs Lisp`, but it gets its job done! NeoVim is also programmable with `Lua`, which seems to be a step up. + +## Magit love + +I almost fell in love with `Magit`, a fully integrated Git client for Emacs. But I think the best way to interact with Git is to use the `git` command line directly. I don't worry about typing out all the commands, as the most commonly used commands are in my shell history. Other useful Git programs I use frequently are `bit` and `tig`. + +`Magit` is pretty neat for basic Git operations, but I found myself searching the internet for the correct sub-commands to do the things I wanted to do in Git. Mainly I found the way how branches are managed confusing. Often, I fell back to the command line to fix up the mess I produced with `Magit` (e.g. accidentally pushing to the wrong remote branch). + +## Seeking simplicity + +I am not ready to dive deep into the whole world of Emacs. I prefer small and simple tools as opposed to complex tools. Emacs comes with many features out of the box, whereas in Vim/NeoVim, you would need to install many plugins to replicate the behaviour. Yes, I need to invest time managing all the Vim/NeoVim plugins I use, but I feel more in control compared to Doom Emacs, where a framework around vanilla Emacs manages all the plugins. I could use vanilla Emacs and manage all my plugins the vanilla way, but for me, it's not worth the effort to learn and dive into that as all that I want to do I can already do with Vim/NeoVim. + +I am not saying that Vim/NeoVim are simple programs, but they are much simpler than Emacs with much smaller footprints; furthermore, they appear to be more straightforward as I am used to them. I only need Vim/NeoVim to be an editor, an IDE (through some plugins), and nothing more. + +## Scripting it + +It is possible to customize every aspect of Emacs through `Emacs Lisp`. I have done some `Elk Scheme` programming in the past (a dialect of `Lisp`), but that was a long time ago, and I am not willing to dive here again to customize my environment. I would rather take the pragmatic approach and script what I need in `VimScript` (a terrible language, but it gets the job done!). I watched Damian Conway's `VimScript` course on O'Reilly Safari Books Online, which I greatly recommend. + +[Scripting Vim by Damian Conway](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/scripting-vim/9781491996287/) + +One example is my workflow of how I write blog articles. I am writing everything in NeoVim, but I also want to have every paragraph checked against Grammarly (as English is not my first language). So I write a whole paragraph, then I select the entire paragraph via visual selection with `SHIFT+v`, and then I press `,y` to yank the paragraph to the systems clipboard, then I paste the paragraph to Grammarly's browser window, let Grammarly suggest the improvements, and then I copy the result back to the system clipboard and in NeoVim I type `,i` to insert the result back overriding the old paragraph with the new content. That all sounds a bit complicated, but it's surprisingly natural and efficient. + +For the clipboard integration, I use this small `VimScript` snippet, and I didn't have to dig into any `Lisp` for this: + +``` +" Clipboard + +if uname != 'Darwin' + vnoremap ,y !gpaste-client<CR>ugv + vnoremap ,i !gpaste-client --use-index get 0<CR> + nmap ,i !wgpaste-client --use-index get 0<CR> +else + vnoremap ,y !pbcopy<CR>ugv + vnoremap ,i !pbpaste<CR> + nmap ,i !wpbpaste<CR> +endif +``` + +## The famous Org mode + + +Org mode: Ranger + +## Conclusion + +I believe I started to understand the Emacs users now. Emacs is a incredible powerful platform for almost everything not just for text editing. If you want to have one piece of software which rules it all and you are happy to invest a large part of your time in your platform: Pick Emacs and over time Emacs will become "your" Emacs, customized to your own needs which makes the Emacs users stick even more to it. With Emacs you can do nearly everything (Editing, programming, calendar scheduling and note taking, Jira integration, play games, read/write emails, browse the web, use as a calculator, generate HTML pages, configure interactive menus, jump around between every feature and every file within one single session, chat on IRC, surf the Gotherspace, ... the options are endless....). + +Vim/NeoVim comes also with a very high degree of customization options, but to a lesser extreme than Emacs. If you want to have the best editor of the world, which can also be tweaked to be a decent IDE, and that's you are only looking for: Pick Vim or NeoVim! You would also need to invest a lot of time in learning, tweaking and customizing Vim/NeoVim, but I think that's a little bit more straightforward and the end-result is much more lightweight. + diff --git a/gemfeed/index.md b/gemfeed/index.md index 8b371012..af9d4c50 100644 --- a/gemfeed/index.md +++ b/gemfeed/index.md @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ ## To be in the .zone! +[2022-11-24 - I tried (Doom) Emacs, but I switched back to (Neo)Vim](./2022-11-24-i-tried-emacs-but-i-switched-back-to-neovim.md) [2022-10-30 - Installing DTail on OpenBSD](./2022-10-30-installing-dtail-on-openbsd.md) [2022-09-30 - After a bad night's sleep](./2022-09-30-after-a-bad-nights-sleep.md) [2022-08-27 - Gemtexter 1.1.0 - Let's Gemtext again](./2022-08-27-gemtexter-1.1.0-lets-gemtext-again.md) @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ If you reach this site via the modern web, please read this: ### Posts +[2022-11-24 - I tried (Doom) Emacs, but I switched back to (Neo)Vim](./gemfeed/2022-11-24-i-tried-emacs-but-i-switched-back-to-neovim.md) [2022-10-30 - Installing DTail on OpenBSD](./gemfeed/2022-10-30-installing-dtail-on-openbsd.md) [2022-09-30 - After a bad night's sleep](./gemfeed/2022-09-30-after-a-bad-nights-sleep.md) [2022-08-27 - Gemtexter 1.1.0 - Let's Gemtext again](./gemfeed/2022-08-27-gemtexter-1.1.0-lets-gemtext-again.md) diff --git a/other-resources.md b/other-resources.md index 33e262f5..6f0f61a5 100644 --- a/other-resources.md +++ b/other-resources.md @@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ _-" . ' + . . ,//////0\ | /00HHHHHHHMMMMM ### Currently reading * 2003 - Absolution Gap (en) / Offenbarung (de) - Revelation Space Universe -* 1990 - Use of Weapons (en) - Culture Book 3, Audio book ### Unread books already in my shelf diff --git a/paul.jpg b/paul.jpg Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 5f73c0de..00000000 --- a/paul.jpg +++ /dev/null |
