I'm vaguely remembering someone responding to one of my 1990s newsgroup posts with something like "Do ya *have* to be so effing enigmatic?"

But, see, it wasn't that I was going out of my way to be enigmatic. It was more an unscientific approach to seeing who would make extra grokking effort as sort of gauge of who I'd want to correspond with.

This I understand. It's one of the main problems I have with the more prevalent social media services, where you feel pressurized into asking the more popular questions instead of what you actually want to say, which will into more interesting discussions

I loved the emacs lisp aspect. But I concluded I'd likely not use it as much as I imagined, or could at least accomplish the same in less - oh what the hell - enigmatic :-) ways in perl through vi stdin/stdout mechanisms. And vi felt like less - or at least less gnarly - keystrokes, and I've definitely a dominant minimalism chromosome

I have a hidden jealousy for vi, in the sense that it still feels like you're interacting directly with the terminal, making pipelining operations feel more native than they do in emacs.... but, well, I've already sunk too many years into emacs to go back now!

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

> This I understand. It's one of the main problems I have
> with the more prevalent social media services, where you
> feel pressurized into asking the more popular questions
> instead of what you actually want to say, which will into
> more interesting discussions

It's lonely at the swap?

(of verbiage)

> I have a hidden jealousy for vi, in the sense that it still
> feels like you're interacting directly with the terminal,
> making pipelining operations feel more native than they do
> in emacs.... but, well, I've already sunk too many years into
> emacs to go back now!

Hear ya.

But oh.. my.. gosh how I once again enjoyed my hitting the backslash key in my vi session, formatting the above paragraphs due to this in my .vimrc:

map \ !}fmt -64<CR>}

and then keying this:

:14,18!q

to "'>' quote" lines 14 through 18 by way of my own trivial $HOME/bin/q script.

I can't tell you how much I love shit like that.

Never mind the added felicity of slapping the 'vimium' extension on the Chrome browser to get lotsa vi keystrokes in my browser sessions!

Holy illimitable orgasmic keystroke joy, Bat<your favorite gender>!