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Re: Emacs Fireplace

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Post by YeGoblynQueenne »

n-gate wrote: post #24

Can I get a quick vim vs emacs usage vote here? Not looking for a war. Just a usage vote. I will try and update results. Feel free to reply with your daily hours too Results below- small sample but makes me wonder about stack overflow survey about vim being thrice as used as emacs. I am a very loyal vim user but I would wager that those results were influenced by the occasional vim user. What are others thoughts on t…

Vim.

Vim's command-line is more alien to the last 4 or 5 gui-bred younger generations of programmers. Learning to master it is therefore more of a badge of hounour, and for that, more sought-after, than learning to master Emacs.

Personally, I'd rather have Vim, but with Emacs-Lisp as a scripting language. That would rock.:x

Re: Emacs Fireplace

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Post by eubarbosa »

hollerith wrote: post #27
dan-robertson wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think emacs already does that fine

have you actually used emacs on a cpu made in the last 20 years and found it to be slow? compared to vim or bash, it is cpu intensive. compared to any of the graphical apps that come with a mac, it is easier on the cpu (and on RAM).

Emacs is meant to be open all the time. As it is way more than a simple Editor.

You can do all the CLI tasks inside Emacs.

Emacs Vanilla takes less than a second to open in my t430(2011)

Re: Emacs Fireplace

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Post by YeGoblynQueenne »

hollerith wrote: post #47
n-gate wrote: post #24

Can I get a quick vim vs emacs usage vote here? Not looking for a war. Just a usage vote. I will try and update results. Feel free to reply with your daily hours too Results below- small sample but makes me wonder about stack overflow survey about vim being thrice as used as emacs. I am a very loyal vim user but I would wager that those results were influenced by the occasional vim user. What are others thoughts on t…

>makes me wonder about stack overflow survey about vim being thrice as used as emacs. Your poll has more selection bias than the SO survey: your poll was seen only by HNers who decided to read comments on a story with "Emacs" in the title.

Correct, but given the lingering sense of the two editors being polar opposites, left behind from centuries-past flame wars of the internets, both vim and emacs users are likely to come forward, just to see what the fuss is about.

Re: Emacs Fireplace

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Post by nabla9 »

n-gate wrote: post #24

Can I get a quick vim vs emacs usage vote here? Not looking for a war. Just a usage vote. I will try and update results. Feel free to reply with your daily hours too Results below- small sample but makes me wonder about stack overflow survey about vim being thrice as used as emacs. I am a very loyal vim user but I would wager that those results were influenced by the occasional vim user. What are others thoughts on t…

Emacs

(Vi is the God of editors, but Emacs is the editor of Gods.)

Re: Emacs Fireplace

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Post by teddyh »

n-gate wrote: post #24

Can I get a quick vim vs emacs usage vote here? Not looking for a war. Just a usage vote. I will try and update results. Feel free to reply with your daily hours too Results below- small sample but makes me wonder about stack overflow survey about vim being thrice as used as emacs. I am a very loyal vim user but I would wager that those results were influenced by the occasional vim user. What are others thoughts on t…

Emacs.

Re: Emacs Fireplace

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Post by village-idiot »

kungtotte wrote: post #52
village-idiot wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Compared to VS Code? Come now.

Spacemacs with a mostly standard config has similar load times as VSCode (2-3 seconds)...

I’ve never understood the load time argument about IDEs, I probably restart my IDE whenever I do os upgrades every other week or so. This is true when I use IntelliJ, Emacs, or VS Code. Any of these could take 30s or longer to start for all I care.

The issue with VS Code is that it’s more memory hungry than google chrome. More than once I’ve caught it using half a gig of memory, with various instances of flow using up to a gig on top of that.

Re: Emacs Fireplace

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Post by rauhl »

YeGoblynQueenne wrote: post #61
n-gate wrote: post #24

Can I get a quick vim vs emacs usage vote here? Not looking for a war. Just a usage vote. I will try and update results. Feel free to reply with your daily hours too Results below- small sample but makes me wonder about stack overflow survey about vim being thrice as used as emacs. I am a very loyal vim user but I would wager that those results were influenced by the occasional vim user. What are others thoughts on t…

Vim. Vim's command-line is more alien to the last 4 or 5 gui-bred younger generations of programmers. Learning to master it is therefore more of a badge of hounour, and for that, more sought-after, than learning to master Emacs. Personally, I'd rather have Vim, but with Emacs-Lisp as a scripting language. That would rock.:x

> Personally, I'd rather have Vim, but with Emacs-Lisp as a scripting language. That would rock.:x

Spacemacs sounds like it’d fit your needs to a T. Or doom-emacs.

Re: Emacs Fireplace

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Post by rauhl »

n-gate wrote: post #24

Can I get a quick vim vs emacs usage vote here? Not looking for a war. Just a usage vote. I will try and update results. Feel free to reply with your daily hours too Results below- small sample but makes me wonder about stack overflow survey about vim being thrice as used as emacs. I am a very loyal vim user but I would wager that those results were influenced by the occasional vim user. What are others thoughts on t…

Emacs. Vi is awesome — it really is — and vim is neat too, but I prefer an entire operating environment. And Lisp. And man-centuries (man-millennia?) of usability improvements.

Re: Emacs Fireplace

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Post by YeGoblynQueenne »

rauhl wrote: post #67
YeGoblynQueenne wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vim. Vim's command-line is more alien to the last 4 or 5 gui-bred younger generations of programmers. Learning to master it is therefore more of a badge of hounour, and for that, more sought-after, than learning to master Emacs. Personally, I'd rather have Vim, but with Emacs-Lisp as a scripting language. That would rock.:x

> Personally, I'd rather have Vim, but with Emacs-Lisp as a scripting language. That would rock.:x Spacemacs sounds like it’d fit your needs to a T. Or doom-emacs.

Those are Emacs configs and I do prefer vim, just with a different scripting language - but, thanks :)

Re: Emacs Fireplace

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Post by pweissbrod »

ai_ia wrote: post #50
n-gate wrote: post #24

Can I get a quick vim vs emacs usage vote here? Not looking for a war. Just a usage vote. I will try and update results. Feel free to reply with your daily hours too Results below- small sample but makes me wonder about stack overflow survey about vim being thrice as used as emacs. I am a very loyal vim user but I would wager that those results were influenced by the occasional vim user. What are others thoughts on t…

Emacs because of Org Mode.

Vim also supports org mode as well. Not quite as nice as emacs but it gets the job done for me
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