Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012)

Post by sn41 » Fri, Dec 07, 2018, 5:52 AM UTC

drng wrote: post #200

sn41 wrote: post #65

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You can consider these points: - Tabs are not present in Emacs, but C-x C-b will list all open buffers + Fuzzy file search : you can take a look at the popular Ido-mode + eshell is pretty powerful, if you think about it, you have all the emacs search functionality etc. available in a shell inside the editor itself. I am not trying to popularise emacs, but "inflexible" is not something that you associate with emacs. I…

> The real gripe for me about emacs is that it is single threaded. So a long grep launched off will freeze the entire editor. Are you running grep with `shell-command` (M-!)? Using M-x grep, `async-shell-command` (M-&), and invoking grep directly in shell, eshell, term and ansi-term all leave emacs as responsive as normal for me. shell-command is the only one that seems to hang. I'll also add ivy[1] and helm[2] as al…

Thanks! I did not know about async-shell-command!

Post by fredsanford » Fri, Dec 07, 2018, 5:27 PM UTC

snazz wrote: post #198

alpaca128 wrote: post #99

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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.

There is no reasonable way to emulate always on

    :set virtualedit=all

Picture mode is not reasonable. The cursor must go where I put it and stay there, not move in any direction I did not choose.

Re: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012)

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