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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'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.
Is the multi threaded implementation, being talked about for some time part of this release? Sometimes the single threaded nature of emacs causes problems while running complex setups like cider, nrepl etc.
There are several rewrites. - Guile Emacs does not seem very alive: http://git.hcoop.net/?p=bpt/emacs.git - Remacs, a Rust port, seems to be more alive: https://github.com/remacs/remacs Does not look usable as a daily driver, though. I sometimes wish that Xi editor adopted an elisp port as one of the scripting engines. Not very likely, though; a suitable port does not exist in the first place so far.
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I only just understood Emacs about a year ago, despite being a nerd for at least 30 years. I like to think I don't have too many regrets in life - but I'm kicking myself for not realizing what Emacs was way back then - or at any of the times I've tried it out in the past (writing it off as "a text editor")! Never too late though, and on the plus side I've now got decades of hidden Emacs goodies still to discover!
Any suggestions to pick it up without wanting to give up due to convoluted shortcuts?
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>I would guess that’s because IIRC, there’s no official support for Emacs to display native windows in Cocoa You would guess wrong. (If you install an X server, you can run Emacs on X11 on a Mac, but if you do, the text looks radically different from the text in other Mac apps. ADDED. whereas if you run Emacs directly on Cocoa, the way most Emacs users on Mac do it excepting the ones running Emacs inside a terminal e…
Hmm. I would then assume that Emacs has rudimentary rendering support in Cocoa, but is otherwise treating it as a variant of X11, and not the fully different graphical system it presumably is. Emacs still has no full-fledged Cocoa integration. That is still only available in the Aquamacs fork, as far as I know: http://aquamacs.org/
What’s a good resource for learning emacs for someone who’s been using vim for more than 20 years?
Be sure to check Doom [1] as well. It's Emacs for « a stubborn vimmer ». One of its goals is to be fast and hacker friendly. It's a smaller community than Spacemacs. Also, the default theme is fantastic along with great defaults for key bindings. [1]: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs
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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.
The first time I ever had wrist issues, they were triggered by emacs and a crappy keyboard . I switched to a split keyboard, and they went away. Unfortunately it was a split keyboard with membrane keys, so the going away was only temporary. I've since switched to a proper mechanical keyboard and all is fine with the world.
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.
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There are several rewrites. - Guile Emacs does not seem very alive: http://git.hcoop.net/?p=bpt/emacs.git - Remacs, a Rust port, seems to be more alive: https://github.com/remacs/remacs Does not look usable as a daily driver, though. I sometimes wish that Xi editor adopted an elisp port as one of the scripting engines. Not very likely, though; a suitable port does not exist in the first place so far.
Remacs is supposed to be an in-place re-write, so it should be just as usable as upstream.
OTOH, being an in-place rewrite, it likely cannot afford to change some of the more important architectural decisions, very likely including the ones that prevent multithreading.
> - In Dired, the 'Z' command on a directory name compresses all of its files. Dired is so handy, but it does so much. Unless I were to use this feature often enough I fear I would never remember it was there and just break out to a terminal and `tar -zcf` manually. I feel like something already exists for this, but it would be cool if there was a "Random Mode Tip of The Day" that one could invoke for discovery and p…