Personally, I still really like Sublime. The GUI makes it very easy to pick up.
Emacs is sexy
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#22Can't access this at work - it's blocked as pornography. Hope I don't have to explain that in the log to anyone - "No really, it's a text editor..."
Do they block whole .sexy TLD?
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#24No it isn't.
Agreed
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#25Emacs itself isn't sexy; the sole reason I use emacs is the power and extensibility offered by emacs lisp. If vim used elisp instead of shudders vimscript, I would use it in a heartbeat.
Elisp (or even better, Guile) are definitely huge reasons to use emacs for me, but there are many, many other things I use it for instead of vim (which I also know, and have used for over 20 years). org-mode and w3m (a web browser that can be integrated in to emacs) are my two biggest draws, but eventually I mean to get the mail client working, give the shell modes another try, and maybe get the irc and RSS clients g…
org-mode is what makes me stop and go "Hmmmm" about finally throwing in the towel and using it. I really hate the key combos though.
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#26http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs.html
And down the Xah Lee rabbit hole we go. If you have a question of the form "how do i ", xah has almost certainly written a post about it.
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#27Obligatory https://www.vim.sexy/
I just know every time there's an HN post about Emacs/Vi there's gonna be a fight ;)
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#28Emacs itself isn't sexy; the sole reason I use emacs is the power and extensibility offered by emacs lisp. If vim used elisp instead of shudders vimscript, I would use it in a heartbeat.
Meh, I've customized emacs enough to make it really attractive. Well at least within a matrix style aesthetic. It's not that hard especially on Mac.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Elisp (or even better, Guile) are definitely huge reasons to use emacs for me, but there are many, many other things I use it for instead of vim (which I also know, and have used for over 20 years). org-mode and w3m (a web browser that can be integrated in to emacs) are my two biggest draws, but eventually I mean to get the mail client working, give the shell modes another try, and maybe get the irc and RSS clients g…
org-mode is what makes me stop and go "Hmmmm" about finally throwing in the towel and using it. I really hate the key combos though.
I really hate the key combos though.
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#30In my experience, Emacs is excellent if you take the time to set it up to do as much as possible. Manage work with OrgMode, read email with any number of packages, edit code in one of the supported languages, send and receive messages. The less you have to leave the application, the more productive you are. There are 2 issues with this, the first is the sheer number of packages you need to install. Packages are a mixed blessing because they add so much, but if the person who wrote it stops working on it, you now need to take over or find something else. The second is the configuration. If you're willing to do all that work and keep it running, that's awesome.