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<h1>2020-08-04-RE_sloum</h1>
<p>Quick missive to reply back to ~sloum's
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<li><a href="gemini://gemlog.blue/users/sloum/1596522415.gmi">reply to me ...
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<p>I feel better *enough* today to go back to work.  I don't think it's COVID, but I'll keep being safe.  I'm just waiting to get it, to be honest.  But enough of that.
<p>As far as the shoulder's concerned, I think it's definitely just age.  Gotta love it.  Thirty is going to be the year I become old, lol.
<p>Thanks for the well-wishes, by the way!  They warmed my heart this morning.  (And I did see it on Spacewalk, haha!)
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<p>Why I'm really writing this, however, is for your second paragraph:
<blockquote>You could spend the time at home not just ditching evil mode but emacs altogether and just switch to Vim full time :-p (vanilla vim with a decent vimrc ftw!)
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<p>I've used Vim for my entire Linux career :)  Well, now I use NeoVim.  Or I was before trying out Emacs again.  The muscle memory is strong with vim, the keyboard shortcuts just *make sense* in a lot of ways -- especially the plugins I use.  For example, I started thinking about evil-mode when I was editing some HTML, and I wanted to do a vim-surround-style `ysit` to add a link inside headers.  I ended up installing expand-region in Emacs so I could `C-=` a couple of times, then `C-c C-c a` to add anchor tags with the selection.  It was okay, I guess.  I *don't* like the find-replace in Emacs, though: `M-%`, then search, then RET, then replacement, then RET, then y-or-n for *every* replacement?  `:%s/re/place/g` is waay easier.
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<p>Anyway, I was planning on expanding my emacs adventures into a full-on post of their own at some point, so I'll leave this here.  I guess I should mention some of why I *am* trying emacs though, really quickly: I like the consistent interface it can give to everything.  Lisp seems interesting, if a little too parentheses-y for me.  Definitely better than VimScript (though that's a loooow bar).  I like Elpher.  I like the idea of Emacs being a completely integrated computing environment.  Though I can hear the "Unix is my IDE" call now, from over my shoulder .........

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