@halva saw someone saying that you should rebind emacs meta key to super and bind the alt key as modifier for your window manager to show dedication to emacs
@halva@Ittihadyya Honestly for many people (including me), learning to use vim or Emacs was the best solution to real-life problems people get from a misuse of computers. For example, the web 2.0 has made me suffer and I'm blogging about it.
Secondly, we're all fed up of seeing people disregard these use cases because these text editors don't fit to theirs. I.e., if they aren't actual resources for you, sure, you'll get down a depression rabbit hole. Just like I have with i3/sway: they weren't worth learning for my use case. But Emacs has let me transition from IT-as-alienyation to IT-as-a-hobby.
This "cult" thing may be a crossfire between (1) people for whom using X piece of arcane software is a matter of health, promoting it to everynyan, and (2) people for whom avoiding said piece of software is a matter of health, too.
But there's no need to make it an "editors war" and I'm mostly going to write this for the sake of the public thread, but when I meet other Linux users we generally share our use cases and e.g. default configs to get started. Promoting one's favorite text editor in a desperate attempt at developing social capital in the FLOSS user field, in Bourdieu's sense, whereas books could be pirated on Z-Library is another problem.
