I did not know about ido-mode, it always surprises me how much I can find new stuff in emacs every week!
A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)
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#12I started off with Emacs and a month a later tried Vi. I found Vi to be a better fit for me than Emacs and haven't looked back since.
I have huge respect for both editors, they both are much older than me :) I wish I could write something that people would find useful for years to come.
Having said that, I love to jab(friendly) at Emacs users in my circle of friends and colleagues. Makes the conversation even more colourful with a bit of booze inside ;)
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#13I started off with Emacs and a month a later tried Vi. I found Vi to be a better fit for me than Emacs and haven't looked back since. I have huge respect for both editors, they both are much older than me :) I wish I could write something that people would find useful for years to come. Having said that, I love to jab(friendly) at Emacs users in my circle of friends and colleagues. Makes the conversation even more co…
Are you using vi or vim? Have you tried emacs with evil?
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you know vim keybindings you can already use emacs with evil. Just install spacemacs and off you go.
To be fair, evil and spacemacs will only get you vim-like keybindings (which is all that vim-adventures gives you too), but there's a lot more to both editors than just keybindings. There's even more to emacs than to vim, if you start using emacs for more than just editing, doing things that have no equivalent in vim (like reading email, browsing the web, using IRC, or reading RSS news feeds, etc). For every one of t…
The parent question was 15min quick start to emacs, not learn niche usage like reading email, irc etc. You can use spacemacs for a lot of languages with good support, if you are only familiar with vim keybindings.
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#15The pyramids were built with emacs. Everything else is drywall to me now. More work? Yes. Worth it though.
I like to say gnu+emacs is my OS, and linux is simply my kernel.
Org-mode alone would be worth it.
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#16personally this article would work way better for me with a set of animated gifs instead of turning into a wall of text. And I'd love to see his workflows for what he puts in his different orgs to help with context switching. as I get more senior I'm switching tasks even more and more.
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#17It is difficult to even describe a productive hand tuned to fit the individual Emails setup compared to standard.
Here are some of my favorite Emacs things:
Helm + Projectile. Helm will fuzzy complete almost anything in Emacs. Projectile is project management. Together get to any Git repo and file there in very quick. Helm is an option to compare to IDO. I rarely use IDO due to Helm.
Magit, widely regarded as a good Git UI. Using is believing. Better than command line or most GUIs for me.
Various editing nodes are good enough (Python, Lisp of course, Markdown).
Org mode is it's own beast, but if you like outlines and productivity tools Org is very nice. I use it, not extensively. It holds my todos and meeting notes and makes it easy to ha e very complex notes in one doc.
Basic text editing. I think Vi has some things it does better than Emacs here, but it is still very powerful and rewards learning the finer details.
Realizing you are in a Lisp machine. A calculator is no further than your Emacs window. Learning to hack Lisp and elisp is its own reward.
I think the time spent learning it is worth it. I think the math checks out in terms of efficiency. I also know Emacs is not going anywhere. Same with Vi.
There is much more to it all, but these are things off the top of my head. There are many smaller things that connect up how I work via Emacs... But there is a lot to it.
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#18I started off with Emacs and a month a later tried Vi. I found Vi to be a better fit for me than Emacs and haven't looked back since. I have huge respect for both editors, they both are much older than me :) I wish I could write something that people would find useful for years to come. Having said that, I love to jab(friendly) at Emacs users in my circle of friends and colleagues. Makes the conversation even more co…
Are you using vi or vim? Have you tried emacs with evil?
Now, Vim. But I would definitely like to give Emacs another try, just for kicks.
Do you think emacs with evil is the path with least resistance for a long term Vi/Vim user?
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#19It is difficult to even describe a productive hand tuned to fit the individual Emails setup compared to standard. Here are some of my favorite Emacs things: Helm + Projectile. Helm will fuzzy complete almost anything in Emacs. Projectile is project management. Together get to any Git repo and file there in very quick. Helm is an option to compare to IDO. I rarely use IDO due to Helm. Magit, widely regarded as a good…
Helm-ag is great too. I tend to bounce between "helm-projectile-find-file" and "helm-projectile-ag" depending on if I'm grepping or looking for a file name. Fuzzy search makes those terrific. Then within a single file, "helm-swoop" is great. And then "helm-resume" to bring up my previous search.