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Interesting. So, clearly modeled very closely after Spacemacs. Why would someone use this over Spacemacs in vi mode? (I’m sure there are reasons, just curious what they are)
Much better performance for one. Not having to use Emacs bloat if all you want is vim features + plugins, for the other.
Interesting. So, clearly modeled very closely after Spacemacs. Why would someone use this over Spacemacs in vi mode? (I’m sure there are reasons, just curious what they are)
While Evil mode is good, it is not true vim. That could be one particularly strong reason. There is also performance, emacs is slower than vim, unless you set up an emacs daemon at startup.
One thing that's eluded me howver is being able to have graphical and terminal emacs work with the same daemon.
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While Evil mode is good, it is not true vim. That could be one particularly strong reason. There is also performance, emacs is slower than vim, unless you set up an emacs daemon at startup.
I'm in the process of converting to emacs after about 6 years of vim - I find just having a daemon launch at startup and always having a frame open is fine once you get into the mindset of sending whatever you're editing to that frame instead of just editing it in the session you're in. I actually kind of prefer it now because when I used vim I never really took advantage of multiple buffers. I'd just open, edit and…
Interesting. So, clearly modeled very closely after Spacemacs. Why would someone use this over Spacemacs in vi mode? (I’m sure there are reasons, just curious what they are)
While Evil mode is good, it is not true vim. That could be one particularly strong reason. There is also performance, emacs is slower than vim, unless you set up an emacs daemon at startup.
Interesting. So, clearly modeled very closely after Spacemacs. Why would someone use this over Spacemacs in vi mode? (I’m sure there are reasons, just curious what they are)
While Evil mode is good, it is not true vim. That could be one particularly strong reason. There is also performance, emacs is slower than vim, unless you set up an emacs daemon at startup.
As a vim user of 25 years before switching to Emacs+Evil, I can name only about two things.[1][2] And they're not nearly enough for me to go back to vim for.
[1] - vim's \zs regex pattern, which would let me position the cursor ahead of where the regex match would normally take me without it. This can be very useful for certain macros, but I don't encounter an absolute need for it very often.. but when I do, I wish this was possible in Emacs.
[2] - In my experience, vim has been much more performant on large files with long lines.. but, again, I don't edit such files often enough to make me want to back to vim... and, anyway, when relatively rare cases when I do need it I can fire up vim for that one use.
Interesting. So, clearly modeled very closely after Spacemacs. Why would someone use this over Spacemacs in vi mode? (I’m sure there are reasons, just curious what they are)
Much better performance for one. Not having to use Emacs bloat if all you want is vim features + plugins, for the other.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
While Evil mode is good, it is not true vim. That could be one particularly strong reason. There is also performance, emacs is slower than vim, unless you set up an emacs daemon at startup.
Can you verbalize what significant thing you're missing from Evil that's present in vim? As a vim user of 25 years before switching to Emacs+Evil, I can name only about two things.[1][2] And they're not nearly enough for me to go back to vim for. [1] - vim's \zs regex pattern, which would let me position the cursor ahead of where the regex match would normally take me without it. This can be very useful for certain m…
Still nothing major, though.
I keep trying to use and learn emacs. It'll happen eventually.
Interesting. So, clearly modeled very closely after Spacemacs. Why would someone use this over Spacemacs in vi mode? (I’m sure there are reasons, just curious what they are)
But when I tried Spacemacs it was just too much. It was completely overwhelming, I didn't understand where anything was, some key-strokes worked like Vim, some worked like Emacs, menus and commands and status lines appeared and disappeared almost at random and in the end I just gave up trying to understand this Rude Goldberg device.
Now, this doesn't mean that Spacemacs is bad - it's entirely plausible that I'm just not to bright and don't have a good attention span to learn this tool. But I don't think that I'm the only one.
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I'm in the process of converting to emacs after about 6 years of vim - I find just having a daemon launch at startup and always having a frame open is fine once you get into the mindset of sending whatever you're editing to that frame instead of just editing it in the session you're in. I actually kind of prefer it now because when I used vim I never really took advantage of multiple buffers. I'd just open, edit and…
`emacsclient -nw` in the terminal will open a terminal emacs that works with the same daemon.
Interesting. So, clearly modeled very closely after Spacemacs. Why would someone use this over Spacemacs in vi mode? (I’m sure there are reasons, just curious what they are)