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If you're already familiar with vim, I've heard good things about Spacemacs: http://spacemacs.org/
I installed spacemacs a couple of weeks ago. I’m enjoying it but I have to keep switching back to sublime to get things done quickly then switching back when I can afford to take time doing things.
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I wonder what kind of programs get to follow you for so many decades.
On Windows, some file managers are in this category. E.g. Far has been around for about 25 years now, and still has a cult-like following, especially in Eastern Europe / ex-USSR. ImageMagick is another one that has been around for almost 30 years, and is the Swiss army knife of batch image processing on any platform.
And in a way.. MS Office has been forever, even though it changed a lot in the recent years .. Excel is still Excel.
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 also have a Kinesis one that I used for some years. Those require some training.
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Why vscode?
My visual acuity varies, so I benefit a lot from software that lets me change the size of the elements on the screen. The typical Mac app allows the user to change the size of the text in the main pane, but everything else is a fixed size. In contrast, all the Electron apps I've tested give the user an easy way to change the size of everything, e.g., all the icons in all the panes. If I had found a way to change the…
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My visual acuity varies, so I benefit a lot from software that lets me change the size of the elements on the screen. The typical Mac app allows the user to change the size of the text in the main pane, but everything else is a fixed size. In contrast, all the Electron apps I've tested give the user an easy way to change the size of everything, e.g., all the icons in all the panes. If I had found a way to change the…
You can change size of elements in Emacs too. Hint: 99% of what you're looking at is text, so it boils down to changing font sizes. Emacs already has commands for zooming content in a frame, which work like +/-/0 in a web browser.
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.
Can you give the n00b's any tips on how to master emacs while keeping it interesting?
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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.
You could try the Microsoft Comfort Curve 3000 keyboards. They are almost like ordinary keyboards, but the extra curving really helps with Emacs. And they're cheap. I also have a Kinesis one that I used for some years. Those require some training.
The older Curve 2000 series might be a better choice if you actually want to use those keys with any frequency
(And to bring it back to emacs, I find myself using ESC-ESC-ESC quite a lot when I (or it) get confused about what state things should be in)
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My visual acuity varies, so I benefit a lot from software that lets me change the size of the elements on the screen. The typical Mac app allows the user to change the size of the text in the main pane, but everything else is a fixed size. In contrast, all the Electron apps I've tested give the user an easy way to change the size of everything, e.g., all the icons in all the panes. If I had found a way to change the…
You can change size of elements in Emacs too. Hint: 99% of what you're looking at is text, so it boils down to changing font sizes. Emacs already has commands for zooming content in a frame, which work like +/-/0 in a web browser.
"most of": The size of the menu-bar and pop-up menus is fixed in all of those apps when they are running on a Mac, but Apple made the text in them large and legible enough to suit me.
Setting the scaling to a fractional value in System Preferences doesn't count because the result is too blurry. I never obtained a monitor with a horizontal resolution of at least 2560, which is the minimum needed to set the scaling to 2 in System Preferences.
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 wonder what kind of programs get to follow you for so many decades.