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Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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Post by eartheaterrr »

young_unixer wrote: post #68
jes wrote: post #8

I have been using GNU Emacs since the late 1980s. It has been my life's editor, so to speak. At 59 1/2, it seems unlikely that I will ever switch to another editor. It's served me well. I am grateful to the hackers that created it.

Have you had RSI issues? Do you use it with the default keybindings? I've tried it a few times but the default keybindings seem unnatural to me. Not that it's Emacs fault, considering the keyboards they used back then.

I've been using Emacs Evil mode for years, and I find it much better than the better defaults.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil

Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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Post by brlewis »

young_unixer wrote: post #68
jes wrote: post #8

I have been using GNU Emacs since the late 1980s. It has been my life's editor, so to speak. At 59 1/2, it seems unlikely that I will ever switch to another editor. It's served me well. I am grateful to the hackers that created it.

Have you had RSI issues? Do you use it with the default keybindings? I've tried it a few times but the default keybindings seem unnatural to me. Not that it's Emacs fault, considering the keyboards they used back then.

I've been using the default keybindings for decades and never had RSI issues. The only time my wrist has started to bother me is when I use some other program that involves a lot of mouse motion.

Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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Post by jimbokun »

young_unixer wrote: post #68
jes wrote: post #8

I have been using GNU Emacs since the late 1980s. It has been my life's editor, so to speak. At 59 1/2, it seems unlikely that I will ever switch to another editor. It's served me well. I am grateful to the hackers that created it.

Have you had RSI issues? Do you use it with the default keybindings? I've tried it a few times but the default keybindings seem unnatural to me. Not that it's Emacs fault, considering the keyboards they used back then.

Step one: remap Caps Lock to Control.

Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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Post by cgdub »

mruts wrote: post #67
andrenth wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you using evil mode? It seems to be suggested by the spacemacs docs.

spacemacs is for vim users. No one who doesn’t use evil mode uses it. Also most people who use evil-mode probably use spacemacs. Emacs keybindings are burned into my brain at this point, but if I had to do it again, I would probably go with spacemacs. I think modal editing is probably superior.

I don't use evil-mode (anymore), but I still use Spacemacs. I'm too lazy to configure everything myself (language modes, Helm, Projectile, Magit, etc) so I use Spacemacs as a starting point and load a bunch of extra ELisp on top.

I'd recommend Spacemacs (even if you're not using evil) if you're new to Emacs and want to see how different and powerful a fully customized Emacs is when compared to the bare-bones experience of stock Emacs.

Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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Post by truncate »

jes wrote: post #8

I have been using GNU Emacs since the late 1980s. It has been my life's editor, so to speak. At 59 1/2, it seems unlikely that I will ever switch to another editor. It's served me well. I am grateful to the hackers that created it.

Nice! It's been the best constant in my life for the past 6 years (well configs, plugins, and emacs evolved, but very smooth and usually with my pace).

I would, however, love to hear a bit more on how you felt about the future of Emacs in those 30 years. I dunno much history, but is there any contrast to the present where Atom/VSCode is kinda shipping shiny (and useful) stuff way faster meanwhile being very configurable.

Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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Post by onyva »

jes wrote: post #8

I have been using GNU Emacs since the late 1980s. It has been my life's editor, so to speak. At 59 1/2, it seems unlikely that I will ever switch to another editor. It's served me well. I am grateful to the hackers that created it.

Absolutely.

Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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Post by rgrau »

username223 wrote: post #23
jes wrote: post #8

I have been using GNU Emacs since the late 1980s. It has been my life's editor, so to speak. At 59 1/2, it seems unlikely that I will ever switch to another editor. It's served me well. I am grateful to the hackers that created it.

I haven't been using it quite that long, but still... It has served me well for decades, and I expect it to outlive me. How many coders can say they contributed to something like that?

Speaking about age and contributions. I turned 36 today and this emacs version is the first one that has some code of mine.

It's strange, but I feel extremely excited about this coincidence. :D

Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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Post by snazz »

rainygold wrote: post #66
8456523 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm 58 2/3, and GNU Emacs has been my daily driver since 1991. vscode however will probably take over that role some time during the next 12 months.

Why vscode?

I’ve seen this pop up a lot lately—someone who’s been using Emacs or Vim for years and then sees the “new cool” editor and says they’ll be switching to it.

I have the same question, since someone who’s used Emacs for that long would surely have “seen the light” already. Maybe they’re yak shaving with the config instead of getting work done? That’s one of the few valid complaints I can think of.

Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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Post by snazz »

bobbylarrybobby wrote: post #41
manish_gill wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Emacs is the one environment that I've been a fan of from afar. I recognize the brilliance and power of it, but a few things have always kept me away from using it on the Mac. And I've put in serious attempts, including going emacs-only, then a custom evil mode, then spacemacs - - The server mode compatibility with the way Mac applications are set up. I'd ideally want an emacs server running in the background, and a…

Issue #1 was annoying for me, so I hacked together the following solution: write an emacs function that detects situations where you feel emacs should quit (e.g., no windows left) and have it kill itself and the server when this happens. Then, write a launch agent to poll if the server is running and start it if not (pgrep is cheap enough that you can do this every few seconds). Finally, write an Automator app that w…

If you could package it up nicely, maybe one of the Emacs distributions would consider upstreaming your solution. I doubt that the pure-GNU Emacs maintainers would be too happy about it considering RMS’s choice to remove Mac- and Windows- specific API usages since they gave the nonfree OSs an “advantage”.
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