It’s Friday so let’s have a bit of whimsy. This morning, I ran across two separate items poking gentle fun at Vim. First up is the fact that someone bought the vim.dev domain and immediately pointed it at the Emacs site:
Shots fired in the vim(m) v. emacs war. #vim #teamvim #emacs https://t.co/pyJkHgI8Ki
— Andrew Curioso (@AndrewCurioso) March 1, 2019
Right now, lots of people are tweeting about this so it’s little more than a weak joke but consider what will happen in a few months when some unsuspecting prospective user goes looking for information about Vim.
The second item is a Vim plugin that exits Vim as soon as it’s started. It’s a trivial one-line hack written by a Vim lover who did it as a joke. The project’s README is witty as well so give it a read if you’re amused by the Emacs/Vim holy wars.
Emacs partisans can, I’m sure, expect retaliation shortly.