![]() On the other hand, who is being hurt or marginalized? There's not a lot of gang members who have made the switch to coding, but gang signs are basically showing yourself to be that one guy from Office Space. How do I make myself okay with the vi gang sign? White male nerds running around throwing gang signs to indicate their tribal allegiances does not an inviting accepting environment make. RED SQUIGGLY LINES TEXSHOP MOVIEAlso, in the movie it became clear that the artists, at least, didn't intend it to be parody or blackface. I ended up feeling pretty good about that, because I already liked MC Frontalot, and so any squeamishness there was ameliorated by hearing a genuine old-school hip-hop artist say that he didn't perceive it as mocking - which was nice to hear. Oh, culture of my people, is there any length you won't go to make me feel weird about issues of race and privilege? Nerdcore hiphop ended up with me requiring me to watch an entire documentary during which Prince Paul basically said that nerdcore was weird, but not too racist. Today I learned that there actually is a vi gang sign. I do this, however, not because I love them, but because they're the programs that displease me least. I haven't yet run into any software that speaks to me and says, "yes, THIS is the One True Editor, the program you should run when you need to create or modify text." At this point, regular old Windows Notepad works for a paragraph or two, or TextEdit on the Mac, while vim is the tool I reach for when I need to produce more than about a page. I'm trying to think of an editor I do like, and you know what? I can't think of any. It's always been awkward to 'drive', even though things like :wq! are nearly hardcoded into my fingers by now. I suspect there probably isn't any text editing task out of vim's reach, and yet I don't enjoy actually using the software. It is a remarkably powerful program, with oodles of sophisticated functions.īut, while I find it very functional, and it's one of the first things I always install on a new Unix-style machine, I don't particularly like it. ![]() I've been using vim for a long, long time, yet I don't know it especially well. ![]()
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