Jukka Niiranen @jukkan@mstdn.social
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The best part of the 20 years of Git celebration interview with Linus Torvalds was this bit about his choice of text editor. Which is MicroEMACS from 40 years ago, not used by anyone else today.

Instead of the endless rush to adopt whatever is the hyped tech of the day, you could choose to be more like Linus. Make your own choices based on what you really need.

If it worked for the guy who created and , why couldn't it work for you?

github.blog/open-source/git/gi

Use whatever works for you Linus Torvalds on his choice of text editor Part of it is probably, I’ve been doing it so long that I can only do things in certain ways. I’m still using the same editor that I used when I was in college because my fingers have learned one thing and there’s no going back. And I know the editor is crap and I maintain it because it’s a dead project that nobody else uses. So, I have a source tree and I compile my own version every time I install a new machine and I would suggest nobody ever use that editor but I can’t. I’ve tried multiple times finding an editor that is more modern and does fancy things like colorize my source code and do things like that. And every time I try it, I’m like, “Yeah, these hands are too old for this.” So I really hope there’s no project that comes along that makes me go, “I have to do this.”
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