What’s the most common IDE and tooling setup for Clojure folks?
From the latest Clojure survey it seems CIDER and Cursive are pretty close, Calva is gaining in the 3rd place and vi has a steady following at #4.
Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?
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Re: Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?
#122emacs comes packaged with all the tools needed to debug and learn emacs c:
Re: Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?
#123As you mentioned you're comfortable with vi, Spacemacs probably should be a good start although I think it kind of overloaded. Doom emacs should be a better/lighter option to start with till you ready to create your own edition. I suggest don't go full inside but start slowly incorporating emacs into your workflow. If you write code then using emacs only for git via magit for the first couple of weeks should be a goo…
If org mode is it then plenty of other editors have org mode
https://packagecontrol.io/packages/orgmode
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tootone....
Re: Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?
#124Re: Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?
#125I have been collecting learning resources about Emacs here: https://learnawesome.org/topics/a7a55488-8320-4d88-8f2b-4afa...
Feel free to add more.
Re: Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?
#126Let me add to the recommendations to try Doom. I've written up some notes on workflows in Doom: https://noelwelsh.com/posts/2019-01-10-doom-emacs.html
I didn't find anything similar when I got started using it, so it might be useful to you.
Re: Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?
#127I mentor fresh graduates and help them find jobs as part of my work at https://thelycaeum.in - We introduce people to Emacs and I use a bunch of videos which I made for another side project to help them learn it and these might be useful for you. They're available at http://emacsmovies.org/blog/where_to_begin/ - I specifically avoid starter kits and other such stuff and focus on teaching how to get comfortable with basic ideas of the editor. Good luck and welcome. :)
Re: Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Forgive the noise, but I second this. I haven't committed a hundred key combinations to memory. I find that knowing the twenty things I need to know (which are different for everyone), and having another twenty in my back pocket for once or twice a year has lasted me since 1992, and left me very satisfied indeed with emacs.
Also seconding. Vanilla emacs is already extremely powerful, and if you're doing real work, you'll end up having to use hosts that don't have all of your wonderful enhancements installed. It's good to know vanilla emacs. Beyond that, add language modes for anything you need that's not already included. If you use 'git', 'magit' is very nice. Beyond that, helm is interesting, though very large and kind of mind-blowing…
for trailing whitespace:
(add-hook 'before-save-hook 'delete-trailing-whitespace)
This deletes all whitespace when you save a buffer.
Re: Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?
#129Not core functionality, but worth knowing:
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#130Shamelessly pluggin my little project here: Learn Emacs the ADHD way: https://github.com/gsforza/emacs-the-adhd-way
It is mostly about learning Emacs without blindly copying configs from GitHub and getting distracted by all the shiny packages one can get.