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A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)

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Re: A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)

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Post by baby »

bitexploder wrote: post #17

It 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…

I tried using Helm + Projectile, the problem was that I often use emacs out of .git repos. So I ended up using ST3 instead.

Re: A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)

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Post by Areading314 »

Emacs is great, but is nearing its end. The package ecosystem is too fragile and lack of any kind of support leads to constant breaking and having to dig through elisp code/config at inopportune times.

Core tools like a text editor need to be rock solid and depending on volunteer packages is generally not going to cut it vs. paying a small amount towards a supported product.

Full disclosure I recently gave up on Emacs/Spacemacs after several years of using it for Python development (use Pycharm now), Org-mode (Use taskwarrior), and Magit (just use git + some aliases).

Re: A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)

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Post by jaequery »

xenophonf wrote: post #122
neutronicus wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you think vi does basic text editing better, try Spacemacs! I switched over recently (the emacs pinky was real...) and I've really gotten to like the vim-y experience (although now I get really frustrated when I vim on a server and the search doesn't work like Spacemacs search).

If possible, swap Caps Lock with Left Control like it was on the old Sun and Apple keyboards. Having Control on the home row makes it much more comfortable typing common left-hand-only keyboard shortcuts like C-x, C-w, C-a, C-q, C-s, C-e, C-v, and C-z, as well as chords such as M-C-v, M-C-c, or M-C-d. On Windows you can edit the scan code map in the registry to swap the mappings, although this sometimes breaks laptop…

in OSX, how did you swap opt and cmd? i went through hoops to do that and finally managed to do it without replacing opt/cmd os-wide using cmdkeyhappy.

Re: A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)

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Post by joshstella »

nerdponx wrote: post #123
arkh wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love Emacs. But there were no good multimodes 3 years ago. And autocompletion and hints are often a bitch to get working on things which are not C or C++. The moment you start editing files containing more than one language you're pushed to use a dedicated IDE. And then you discover the joy of "good enough". No need to tinker with config files to get the perfect setup: it works good enough to give you a productivit…

I came to the same realization about Vim about a year ago. I've used Sublime and Vim/Nvim extensively, and I've spent at least a few hours in Textmate, Emacs, Spacemacs, Notepad++, VS Code, and Atom as well. All of those text editors above have some excellent and unique redeeming qualities. But at the end of the day their actual language support tends to be weak. Now I do Python work in Pycharm, R work in Rstudio, an…

I'm hopeful that https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol will decouple some of these concerns. We've built support for it for our DSL, and it's pretty great so far (esp in VSCode). Emacs LSP support is still pretty slow, so I don't use it when in emacs at present, but it feels like the right direction for getting good language support into editors.

Re: A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)

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Post by josteink »

molteanu wrote: post #81
bitexploder wrote: post #17

It 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…

I haven't been able to use magit. I've tried and tried, but it's too slow for me. It literaly takes 30 seconds just to magit-status the project on a windows machine. So I'm using vc and git-gutter+ for this job. You can see the changes, stage them, view the log, annotate your file (what commit modified each line), commit, ammend, etc.

No reason to downvote parent. Both Git and Emacs (especially use of external processes) are slower on Windows.

Combined it’s quite noticeable.

I still use Magit though, because it’s clearly the best git-porcelain around.

Re: A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)

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Post by rockmananoff »

joshstella wrote: post #41
stevekemp wrote: post #32

If you write a small pre-processor (simple to do) you can store your emacs configuration file in a markdown file - allowing you to document all the settings neatly. As I was reading this piece I was imagining that is what the author had done, as it is what I did too: https://github.com/skx/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/init.md

Author here. I didn't, but I might now. Dig this.

Hi there. Thanks for the article. I'm a newbie when it comes to emacs config files. You said, that we will put (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/lisp/") in the .emacs file, but that was before we had created it. Then a few paragraphs later, when we finally do create it, you tell us to just put in

;; set up ido mode (require `ido) (setq ido-enable-flex-matching t) (setq ido-everywhere t) (ido-mode 1)

Where do we put in (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/lisp/") ?

Re: A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)

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Post by scrumper »

Has anyone got any experience using Emacs with one of those mail tools and gmail with 2FA? I started playing with notmuch half-heartedly but it seemed to expect a local mail store, which is fine but I found myself bouncing between setup instructions for several different tools and I quickly gave up.

I would like to get it working; Apple Mail client is a bit slow on my laptop with a high volume, and I'm all about plaintext and keyboards. I'd happily use Emacs.

Re: A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)

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Post by goldfeld »

j7ake wrote: post #86

Has anybody quantified the efficiency gains from using emacs to do work rather than conventional means? Are there certain areas (e.g. Mail, todo, notes,calendar,scheduling) that gains more efficiency than others?

Perhaps the real benefits are having some fun and warding off Alzheimer's, as the time spent learning and tweaking probably cancels out with future productivity gains.

Re: A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)

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Post by cuddlybacon »

jaequery wrote: post #143
xenophonf wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If possible, swap Caps Lock with Left Control like it was on the old Sun and Apple keyboards. Having Control on the home row makes it much more comfortable typing common left-hand-only keyboard shortcuts like C-x, C-w, C-a, C-q, C-s, C-e, C-v, and C-z, as well as chords such as M-C-v, M-C-c, or M-C-d. On Windows you can edit the scan code map in the registry to swap the mappings, although this sometimes breaks laptop…

in OSX, how did you swap opt and cmd? i went through hoops to do that and finally managed to do it without replacing opt/cmd os-wide using cmdkeyhappy.

System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys...

Re: A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)

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Post by dotancohen »

SmirkingRevenge wrote: post #125
nerdponx wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I came to the same realization about Vim about a year ago. I've used Sublime and Vim/Nvim extensively, and I've spent at least a few hours in Textmate, Emacs, Spacemacs, Notepad++, VS Code, and Atom as well. All of those text editors above have some excellent and unique redeeming qualities. But at the end of the day their actual language support tends to be weak. Now I do Python work in Pycharm, R work in Rstudio, an…

PyCharm is excellent. I've gone pretty deep into both vim and emacs over the years, and so it always hurts a little when something like PyCharm comes along, and it works better, and does more out of the box than any finely tuned emacs/vim setup (which often take significant time investments).

You should really give the IdeaVIM plugin a try. I use it in several Intellij editors, PyCharm included, and it is terrific. It has a few quirks and discrepencies from VIM, but it is a far better text editor than the editor that comes stock in any other IDE.
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