Let's just use Emacs
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Let's just use Emacs
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Re: Let's just use Emacs
#2He's talking about Emacs 23.
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#3There's something fishy about an emacs article that doesn't mention vim at all.
Re: Let's just use Emacs
#4There's something fishy about an emacs article that doesn't mention vim at all.
He mentioned being affected by cognitive dissonance when referencing other editors - he was probably thinking of vim :)
Re: Let's just use Emacs
#5tl;dr
Use Emacs 23 to create a distraction-free writing environment using org-mode, darkroom-mode & markdown-mode.
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#6Haven't peeked under the covers in years---this is enough to make me go take a look. Now if someone would write a mode for time-lines then that would pretty much finish up the usual writer (fiction) shopping list.
Re: Let's just use Emacs
#7Haven't peeked under the covers in years---this is enough to make me go take a look. Now if someone would write a mode for time-lines then that would pretty much finish up the usual writer (fiction) shopping list.
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Re: Let's just use Emacs
#8I deeply love emacs, but its crustier elements really bite on a regular basis. The amount of effort required to make it non-ugly is just... unpleasant (a problem I've noticed with a lot of gnu ui stuff, both with applications and websites - appearance matters guys), the lack of namespaces in elisp is quite horrid (though it's very nice to have a lisp as the language of choice), the weird annoying regex conventions, and just lots of little things (I'd have to sit down and record them as I go to be able to list 'em) which degrade the experience.
By the way, take that as intended - I love emacs very much, but as with people so with software - the little things a beloved gets wrong can be unbelievably annoying... :)
Re: Let's just use Emacs
#9You think 20 years from now people will still be voting up articles about Emacs and Vim? just curious
Re: Let's just use Emacs
#10There's something fishy about an emacs article that doesn't mention vim at all.
He mentioned being affected by cognitive dissonance when referencing other editors - he was probably thinking of vim :)
A lot of modern IDEs provide features that are pretty close to magic, compared to what emacs sports. The emacs user response to this generally seems to be something like, "Code navigation can't be as good as M-x rgrep", and "How can refactoring ever be as good as C-M-%?"
This reminds me of various people I have worked with in the past who have wondered why I ever bothered with the complexity of searching and replacing with regular expressions, when you can just do a normal search and replace, watch for matches that match the more complicated thing you're actually looking for, then replace them by hand...