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Re: Emacs 26.3

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Still waiting for Guile Emacs to solve that.

Of all the problems Guile Emacs might have fixed, performance on Windows is not one I considered.

I don't know if it would, but I can imagine that replacing the aging Elisp interpreter would improve the situation on all systems.

Re: Emacs 26.3

#52
post #28

I recently tried to seriously use Emacs over my usual Vim. Mainly because I've got so used to the GNU readline emacs shortcuts in the terminal and quite like the idea of not having to switch between command and insert mode, but damn after looking into some configuration options it really is a massively complicated piece of software, I mean not to start using it, it's probably easier than Vim but just looking at all t…

Thanks for the responders to my parent comment. I might look into spacemacs or DOOM emacs, I've heard about both and seen some videos and obviously either sound like a good way to switch over. I'm not actually having any issues with Vim that is encouraging me to switch, but stuff like org mode, email clients, magit and other things can all be run out of emacs is very intriguing indeed.

Re: Emacs 26.3

#53

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I just use spacemacs and it handles that for me.

Spacemacs is disturbingly slow.

I don't know if you find spacemacs disturbingly slow while editing or just when it starts. I was disturbed by the latter and have emacs set up to run in daemon mode and have the following in my .bashrc:

  function em() {
    emacsclient -nw "$@"
  }
so that I can call "em" with any necessary arguments and start an emacs session without having to wait. Works for me (though depending on the language I might still prefer vim).

Re: Emacs 26.3

#54
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The improved js-mode in 27.x is definitely worth checking out, especially if you use React/JSX. Had many issues wrestling with indentation in previous setup. https://github.com/mooz/js2-mode/blob/master/README.md#react...

That is very good to hear. I've used Emacs for a decade, but I recently switched to VS Code because JSX support in Emacs was such a mess.

Re: Emacs 26.3

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post #53

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Spacemacs is disturbingly slow.

I don't know if you find spacemacs disturbingly slow while editing or just when it starts. I was disturbed by the latter and have emacs set up to run in daemon mode and have the following in my .bashrc: function em() { emacsclient -nw "$@" } so that I can call "em" with any necessary arguments and start an emacs session without having to wait. Works for me (though depending on the language I might still prefer vim).

The emacs "daemon mode" works just well to solve the latter, indeed. But the general lack of asynchronous processing can be annoying, although async.el already exists.

Re: Emacs 26.3

#56

Great job a very good example of programmable editor. Emacs had been my work horse since 2002 and never disappointed. In the meantime tried many ide only vim and emacs stayed with me. Sometimes do use nano and sublime text but then back to either emacs or vi. All those shiny IDE based on electron, Java or C++ are just too slow to be productive be it VScode, atom or eclipse or visual studio or kdevelop. I am forced to…

http://spacemacs.org/ with its org-mode and magit (https://magit.vc/) integration, combined with the modal editing of vi, is truly superior.

Don't care about your platform, desktop (I'm typically working over SSH in the cloud, so why bother?) or any of that hooplah.

Just waiting for everybody else to catch up.

Re: Emacs 26.3

#57
post #28

I recently tried to seriously use Emacs over my usual Vim. Mainly because I've got so used to the GNU readline emacs shortcuts in the terminal and quite like the idea of not having to switch between command and insert mode, but damn after looking into some configuration options it really is a massively complicated piece of software, I mean not to start using it, it's probably easier than Vim but just looking at all t…

I just started with vanilla emacs, and used it for not much more than writing notes in org-mode.

It was a few months before I started editing my config files, first to get rid of the start up message, then to handle some org exports, then to do a little python programming.

Your config file grows as your use of emacs expands. I now use it for programming, task management, email, calendar, accessing remote files, git, and occasionally a little note taking.

The worst thing you can do with emacs, when starting, is to look at other peoples .emacs files. It's just intimidating

Re: Emacs 26.3

#58
post #28

I recently tried to seriously use Emacs over my usual Vim. Mainly because I've got so used to the GNU readline emacs shortcuts in the terminal and quite like the idea of not having to switch between command and insert mode, but damn after looking into some configuration options it really is a massively complicated piece of software, I mean not to start using it, it's probably easier than Vim but just looking at all t…

> I've got so used to the GNU readline emacs shortcuts in the terminal

If you happen to be using bash, "set -o vi" was a godsend for me.

Re: Emacs 26.3

#59

Great job a very good example of programmable editor. Emacs had been my work horse since 2002 and never disappointed. In the meantime tried many ide only vim and emacs stayed with me. Sometimes do use nano and sublime text but then back to either emacs or vi. All those shiny IDE based on electron, Java or C++ are just too slow to be productive be it VScode, atom or eclipse or visual studio or kdevelop. I am forced to…

http://spacemacs.org/ with its org-mode and magit ( https://magit.vc/ ) integration, combined with the modal editing of vi, is truly superior. Don't care about your platform, desktop (I'm typically working over SSH in the cloud, so why bother?) or any of that hooplah. Just waiting for everybody else to catch up.

Personally for me spacemacs is bit slower in startup for my liking, so I use my own custom configuration. It's just lisp at the end of the day. Also for people who prefer emacs keys instead of vi, they can start with emacs-prelude package. But it will be hard to beat custom configuration in long run.

Re: Emacs 26.3

#60
post #12

The improved js-mode in 27.x is definitely worth checking out, especially if you use React/JSX. Had many issues wrestling with indentation in previous setup. https://github.com/mooz/js2-mode/blob/master/README.md#react...

Consider the poor quality of the existing js modes for 26.x, any idea why this depends on a future version of Emacs instead of current versions?

Alternatively, could somebody convince the author of the railwaycat port (Emacs with better macOS integration) to get a version 27 out soon?

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