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bling on software
Personal blog · bling.github.io/blogprogramming
bling on software is a personal blog at bling.github.io about programming. Since 2013, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Unite.vim, the Plugin You Didn't Know You Need”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link bling on software for its Emacs and Vim posts, including evil-mode, using Emacs as a leader-key setup, and moving from Vim to Emacs. Commenters point to them as resources for that switch.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Unite.vim, the Plugin You Didn't Know You Need4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-06-05
- Why are you changing gc-cons-threshold? (2016)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-16
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-07
- /blog/2013/10/27/emacs-as-my-leader-vim-survival-guide/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-29
- Emacs as my Leader: Vim Survival Guide2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-27
What Hacker News says?
"Well, the nice thing about an operating system is that you can write a text editor for it; that text editor is called evil-mode." https://bling.github.io/blog/2013/10/27/emacs-as-my-leader-v...
Comment linking /blog/2013/10/27/emacs-as-my-leader-vim-survival-guide/
on “Emacs Rocks”Submitted The Flight of an Open Source Project as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThere are several. I prefer evil – see https://bling.github.io/blog/2015/01/06/emacs-as-my-leader-1... for some intro.
Comment linking /blog/2015/01/06/emacs-as-my-leader-1-year-later/
on “Unix as IDE”Submitted Emacs as my Leader: Vim Survival Guide as a story · 8 points
HN discussionHere's my migration guide from early September, if you're looking for more resources: http://nathantypanski.com/blog/2014-08-03-a-vim-like-emacs-c... Bling, who I've linked to in that post, has repeatedly made quality posts about making the transition: http://bling.github.io/
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on “From Vim to Emacs”Submitted Why are you changing gc-cons-threshold? (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSee also 'Why are you changing gc-cons-threshold?' < https://bling.github.io/blog/2016/01/18/why-are-you-changing... >
Comment linking /blog/2016/01/18/why-are-you-changing-gc-cons-threshold/
on “The original magic Emacs garbage collection hack (2019)”Submitted Emacs as My Leader, 1 Year Later as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI haven't dived into the details of Evil mode too much. The basic Vim motions and commands work out of the box, so for a casual vim user, it ought to be enough. I also went ahead and installed Evil-leader, so I could have the same <leader> keymaps that I have in my vim config. A few places where I looked for small things here and there: 1. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil 2. https://github.com/cofi/evil-leader 3.…
Comment linking /blog/2013/10/27/emacs-as-my-leader-vim-survival-guide/
on “Why I can’t stop using Vim”Submitted Unite.vim, the plugin you didn't know you need as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHe also has some cool blog vim-related posts: http://bling.github.io/
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on “Show HN: vim-airline”Submitted Unite.vim, the Plugin You Didn't Know You Need as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTL;DR: Watch this video: the stated reasons for switching are very similar to my own. It wasn't until I watched this video and read the book that I took the plunge to switch to emacs. It was the fact that with emacs I could have vim _plus_ much more and better functionality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWD1Fpdd4Pc I'll have to write a blog post about it sometime, but basically while I absolutely _love_ the vim '…
Comment linking /blog/2013/10/27/emacs-as-my-leader-vim-survival-guide/
on “What's new in Magit 2.x”Submitted Unite.vim, the Plugin You Didn't Know You Need as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://bling.github.io/blog/2013/06/02/unite-dot-vim-the-plu...
Comment linking /blog/2013/06/02/unite-dot-vim-the-plugin-you-didnt-know-you-need/
on “Replacing All The Things with Unite.vim”Submitted .NET/WPF to HTML/CSS/Javscript as a story · 1 points
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