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It's simply a powerful tool. Not the only one I use, but certainly it's easier to type to it than it is to type, say, to the input box here in my browser (even though it has at least some emacs commands built in).
I don't know whether or not it's a perfect translation, but from his description I would offer "tunnel vision" for Scheuklappen-Effekt. Emacs is a truly remarkable program, which has painted itself into a corner. There are just too many locked-in architectural decisions to make a complete list, and it's good enough at being what it is to suck up all the oxygen needed to build another text editor which could overcome…
Turns out, blinders are also called blinkers.
Here is an idea: Stop adding crazy marcos and customization and use it like an editor instead of an OS. I understand this is a very controversial idea, but I have learned that since I'm switching machines and using remote boxes all the time, customising everything 100% to my liking is neither possible or worth the effort. This of course requires the emacs team to make the barebone emacs a little bit more functional.…
If I'm gong to be using a particular account for a while I'll set a few variables (show-paren-mode is the big one) but otherwise it's pretty much stock.
Here is an idea: Stop adding crazy marcos and customization and use it like an editor instead of an OS. I understand this is a very controversial idea, but I have learned that since I'm switching machines and using remote boxes all the time, customising everything 100% to my liking is neither possible or worth the effort. This of course requires the emacs team to make the barebone emacs a little bit more functional.…
What do you suspect the "macs" is short for?
I'm in a similar boat as in the first quote: Have used emacs for decades, glad that I do, can't imagine switching... don't think I would recommend it to anyone new, unless they are really open about learning something entirely different. Emacs seems to be in the same position as LaTeX: Outdated paradigms that would probably need an entire redesign from the ground up to start "making sense" in the modern world. This s…
With respect to LaTeX, I only started to use it semi-recently in the cloud and I'd recommend it to anyone (but only in the cloud). I don't want to master an editor anymore. I want to get work done. Pretty much the same with LaTeX. When I want to improve something in a doc, I look it up and do that. When I go back to the doc later, I don't always remember what that magic meant. But that's ok, I'm writing a doc. I'm no…
When I took over new responsibilities, I could not justiy this time anymore. I had to move quickly and deliver results. That‘s when I went back to dedicated tools (Ulysses app for writing markdown, Notion.so as a personal wiki (previously org mode), Logseq for personal notes, VSCode and PyCharm as an excellent Python IDE, etc.
Now other people work intensely to perfect those dedicated tools. And I can solely focus at the task in front of me. With this shift in focus my productivity increased immensely.
Now I still use Emacs. For text editing purposes. And I use macros a lot to transform text. But that‘s about it.
I'm in a similar boat as in the first quote: Have used emacs for decades, glad that I do, can't imagine switching... don't think I would recommend it to anyone new, unless they are really open about learning something entirely different. Emacs seems to be in the same position as LaTeX: Outdated paradigms that would probably need an entire redesign from the ground up to start "making sense" in the modern world. This s…
With respect to LaTeX, I only started to use it semi-recently in the cloud and I'd recommend it to anyone (but only in the cloud). I don't want to master an editor anymore. I want to get work done. Pretty much the same with LaTeX. When I want to improve something in a doc, I look it up and do that. When I go back to the doc later, I don't always remember what that magic meant. But that's ok, I'm writing a doc. I'm no…
$ latexmk -pdf main.tex
How hard is that? The only thing Overleaf adds here is a button and a 10x compilation time overhead.
> I don't always remember what that magic meant.
Overleaf mostly won't help you here, unless I'm mistaken.
I don't mean to be aggressive here, I just don't get the Overleaf hype. What's wrong with good old text editor + version control? I think I'll pass on the slow web app for now. At least they have Git integration so nobody is going to force me to use it.
I'm in a similar boat as in the first quote: Have used emacs for decades, glad that I do, can't imagine switching... don't think I would recommend it to anyone new, unless they are really open about learning something entirely different. Emacs seems to be in the same position as LaTeX: Outdated paradigms that would probably need an entire redesign from the ground up to start "making sense" in the modern world. This s…
Well not entirely - it's modeless, and some usual keybindings work as well (Home/End, etc.). The built-in tutorial is brief and to the point, it will get one started pretty quickly.
Here is an idea: Stop adding crazy marcos and customization and use it like an editor instead of an OS. I understand this is a very controversial idea, but I have learned that since I'm switching machines and using remote boxes all the time, customising everything 100% to my liking is neither possible or worth the effort. This of course requires the emacs team to make the barebone emacs a little bit more functional.…
Every so often I would start my Emacs config over from scratch. I might port over some old defuns from the previous, eventually, but I would always endeavour to try the latest tools and best language configurations. Consistently I found myself using Emacs and sticking to it because it offered the best developer experience. And then came Microsoft's Language Server Protocol. Emacs was late to adopt it, and still has g…
As a person who hangs out amongst Emacs communities, this profile is not the norm.