Well fucking shit motherfuckers.

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@mdhughes@appdot.net welp, logged into my rarely used GH account to ask: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/15408

hopefully that is... calm enough to not invite getting dogpiled by LLM boosters. I really just want a "yes, no, maybe, haven't decided, don't care", one way or another. I am long past the point of wanting to debate this stuff with people...

[ra@mstdn.social]

@mdhughes what happened to bbedit? That used be a thing, rght?

[mdhughes@appdot.net]

@Ra I do use BBEdit but really only for plain text, markdown, sometimes Python or shell scripts, anything with complex syntax (I do a lot of JS & Scheme) doesn't highlight well in it. Even MD sometimes I have to page up, page down to get it to reflow.

And for code my fingers have 35+ years of vi. I'm not changing that before I die.

[ddlyh@topspicy.social]

@mdhughes
Hopefully Busybox VI is unaffected?
@siegel

[kaleissin@wandering.shop]

@dfstarshine @mdhughes Search is so shit now of you look for "vim without ai" you only get "vim with ai".

[acb@mastodon.social]

@mdhughes @cstross @siegel BSD vi is still a thing that exists (even on Linux)

[khleedril@cyberplace.social]

@mdhughes @siegel Surely more than one person will have the wherewithal to fork the project at a point before the slop started?

[lemmus@social.vivaldi.net]

@mdhughes @Ra I have vile installed alongside vim now... (No, not emacs with vile bindings, actual vile. https://invisible-island.net/vile/ )

[js@mastodon.nl]

@mdhughes Bram’s no doubt rolling over in his grave. Has “:help uganda” now changed to “:burn workld with csam slop” too?

Anyway, bbedit’s fine. For as long as it lasts (it consumes energy too, and the AI overlords insatiability will trump that at some point no doubt)

[m3t00@app.wafrn.net]

always cat and grep and friends in a terminal. no, feel your pain. habits die hard.

[landa@graz.social]

@mdhughes Well, that's not how I envisioned the Editor Wars to end…
@siegel

#editorwars

[kianryan@oldbytes.space]

@mdhughes
This is disappointing.
@siegel

[graydon@canada.masto.host]

@fiore https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pulls

There's a couple on the first page with "AI assisted" labels.

(This was news to me, too. Going to take a look at `vis`.)

@mdhughes @siegel

[ccll@mamot.fr]

@mdhughes @siegel What a hell when a developper prefers to make happy a computer instead of the Vim fan base, one of the greatest community ever. This should be the dream job of so many developers in this world and this guy is ruining it preferring believing in the metaphore of an AI. No Ai is happy, no AI "explains" something and nobody is "talking" to an AI.

[boredomfestival@sfba.social]

@mdhughes @siegel Sublime Text is amazing.

[mysturji@mastodonapp.uk]

@mdhughes
FYI, it’s spelled “vi”.

HTH✌️