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Apple too used to place the control key in the correct location. It was quite unfortunate when Sun and Apple gave up the good fight.
Which was the last Apple model with the Ctrl-key at the correct location?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Keyboard#Apple_Keyboard_...
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Org mode is really awesome. A chemist basically does his work with org ( http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu ) and recently another guy showing his colleague’s poster done with org and Beamer ( http://irreal.org/blog/?p=7651 ). I find org and mu4e really make mundane stuff easily done. On a mac and iOS system to get email, calendar, to do list, and notes done, it is usually 4 different programs, with emacs it is just o…
I'd love to find more examples of org mode used in the sciences! Any for molecular/cell biology type work?
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Impresive as a developer but not as an emacs power user. One thing that makes me very nervous is seeing someone moving the pointer char by char. Do yourself a favor, learn how to jump around!
Do you know of any videos demonstrating true Emacs mastery?
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One of the selling points of neovim was to make it more easily embedded into other programs.. doesn’t seem like anyones trying to do so from a quick googling though; maybe one day there can be true unification of the holy editors
I suspect this is quite unlikely. A main reason for emacs being good is that it has a good programming language for extensions and good primitives to support it. This is in comparison to eg vimscript (hopelessly bad) and javascript (extremely mediocre). Emacs Lisp has several advantages: 1. Language is more extensible because of macros so dealing with editor state can be hidden. 2. Language is more dynamic with advic…
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I tried Evil mode a few months ago and went back to Vim very quickly. It's one of the best Vim plugins out there, but it still misses a few features and it also behaves differently in a couple of situations. It never really feels like Vim, more like a minefield of unknown shortcuts with a layer of Vim bindings on top. But I get why some people like it, if you can't stand modal editing then Emacs is a great choice.
Could you elaborate on some of the specific features that Evil was missing? Aside from a couple of exceptions, any differences from Vim are considered bugs.
I'm sure a lot of this can be fixed by changing some configuration options, but I don't see a reason to change the editor just for the sake of it. Emacs is awesome in some ways, but it's not my cup of tea.
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That commercial software is build normally to lock you in and lock out any possible evolution path, the learning curve is fixed: when you learnt a certain number of things "you are productive" and there is no more, no future. On FOSS normally software offer many evolution paths, which means you have to learn few thing and you can start, using the software issue or desire arise and you learn new things in an ever grow…
That is certainly true for some FOSS, but not for all. Many FOSS seems to not differ much from their non-FOSS equivalents, ex. LibreOffice, Firefox, Blender, Eclipse.
Of course, there are "recent" FOSS project with a design that take inspiration from commercial products, simply because that's the way authors think/know even if the code is free, but original FOSS software are another story.
I really feel VSCode is lining up to be the new goto IDE across multiple languages. Slightly less (directly) extensible than Emacs but still feels it can do pretty much everything that needs doing, plus way nicer & friendlier default UI.
Lots of editors out there are nicer and friendlier than Emacs. Most of them eventually fall out of fashion. I was using Emacs when Textmate was the hot new thing. The Sublime came around. Then came the first Electron-powered editors like Atom and Brackets. Then came VSCode. While people kept chasing these new editors, I've been using Emacs for more than 10 years. I'll be still using Emacs when the hotter, newer thing…
I really feel VSCode is lining up to be the new goto IDE across multiple languages. Slightly less (directly) extensible than Emacs but still feels it can do pretty much everything that needs doing, plus way nicer & friendlier default UI.
RIP battery though.