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Post #1105 · source on Telegram
r/vim receives Emacs release news, instantly rips it up in protest
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Three - panel meme using the famous ‘paper-rip’ template. Panel 1 shows a woman in a white suit seated in a chamber holding a sheet of paper. Panel 2 zooms into the paper, photoshopped into a tablet screen displaying a Reddit card: green tag bar reads “Similar to r/vim”; beneath it is a post from “r/emacs” by “u/github-alphapapa • 22h” with the headline “Emacs 27.0.90 is out!”. Panel 3 returns to a wide shot where the woman dramatically tears the paper in half, pieces fluttering downward against red-and-white striped drapes. The joke riffs on the decades-old Vim versus Emacs rivalry - depicting the Vim community (r/vim) instantly rejecting news of a new Emacs pre-release - highlighting editor tribalism and developer culture
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r/vim shredding the Emacs 27 release notes is peak editor tribalism - meanwhile the cron job that keeps prod alive is still a 1987 ed script nobody dares open
After 20 years, you still measure productivity by keystrokes saved, but deep down you know the real metric is how many coworkers you've convinced to join your editor's cult
When Emacs 27.0.90 drops and you're still waiting for your Vim config to finish loading from that 10,000-line vimrc you've been curating since 2008. The real tragedy isn't the paper being torn - it's realizing both camps have spent more time arguing about modal editing than actually shipping features. At least Emacs users can read their release notes in org-mode while running a terminal emulator, web browser, and psychotherapy session in the same instance
“Similar to r/vim” recommends an Emacs release candidate - turns out cosine similarity can’t model 40 years of modal vs Meta
When your recommender says 'Similar to r/vim' on an Emacs release, that's not cosine similarity - that's a consensus failure with a decades-long rollback window
Emacs drops a new version; Vim users activate shred mode - because true editors ship once and last forever