https://racket.slack.com/archives/C8FS3SS22/p1607083160055700

Does anyone have similar ideas for descriptions of #emacs or #vim?

Emacs might be the king of the old days, who willingly gave up the throne to his queen so that the people of his nation might understand him better

if DrRacket is the Jewel in the Crown, Emacs is the bit of rust developing on the corner of one of the tips

and Vim is when you get the crown stuck on your head and can’t figure out how to take it off

(this is a joke I love Emacs to death)

Emacs rules many kingdoms

Yeah, the analogy here is that the queen might be the one you go to when you first begin, but when you want to talk about the entire realm you go to the king/queen Emacs?

idk

Vi is just another nation completely

anyway I wrote my first non-trivial macro today please clap

needed to immutably update a struct using a symbol or string as a field name, which can’t happen with struct-copy, so I…

made a wrapper for struct itself that defines a hash table of symbol/strings to lambdas that call struct-copy

great

can you tell I’m tired? I’m tired

Vim (or vi) is everywhere

I was wondering something more into the analogy of royalty LOL

vi is just god?

or the universe itself?

i am glad to have a funny conversation once in a while :slightly_smiling_face:

I guess in Emacs terms, the vi is “evil”

Competing deities. Nice. Like Athena and Poseidon

(Athens chose Athena because she gave the Athenians the olive tree)

I read “Compiling deities” instead, which actually sounds pretty cool :smile:

“Want to be more efficient? Compile yourself!”

Is ed (the standard editor) Zeus

Did you say you were European, @spdegabrielle? Do all Europeans learn about Greek mythology? I never did

I’m Australian - I just like stories. Not part of the curriculum when I was at school(I’m 50). Not part of the curriculum here in uk either(my son is 15).

@winny surely ed is Cronus, king of the Titans.

This is all very silly :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:

Surely you mean https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla\|scylla ;)

Scylly?

Just typed and ran (in-naturals 16) instead of (in-range 16) :grimacing:

have you gotten your answer yet? :slightly_smiling_face: