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Re: Get things done with Emacs

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Post by b3morales »

todd8 wrote: post #8

Thank you for the detailed write up. (I hope the author sees this) I'm always impressed with Emacs users that are capable of such discipline. I've use Emacs well over forty years, with only a few years of interruption, but I have never had a stable or well organized configuration. It's inspirational to see other's use of Emacs. I'm disorganized, and I'm a hoarder (right now, my bedroom has at least 100 books stacked…

Sounds like you have a flourishing Anti-library: https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antili...

> Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there.

Re: Get things done with Emacs

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Post by djha-skin »

Richard stallman himself got repetitive strain injury from emacs. So many people have. They tell you to remap the key to caps lock they tell you to use your palm instead of your finger they tell you to get a weird keyboard but at the end of the day it was just poorly designed.

Vim is only slightly slower but so much easier on my hands. Yes, I could get emacs evil or spacemacs or whatever but bolting on modality to an editor that was never meant for it, especially when all the docs basically ignore their existence, is not something I'm interested in. Native vim is just better.

But I do miss that you can configure emacs using lisp.

There is hope, though. I've heard there is a plug-in for neovim that allows you to write configuration files using common lisp.

Re: Get things done with Emacs

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Post by ducktective »

djha-skin wrote: post #23

Richard stallman himself got repetitive strain injury from emacs. So many people have. They tell you to remap the key to caps lock they tell you to use your palm instead of your finger they tell you to get a weird keyboard but at the end of the day it was just poorly designed. Vim is only slightly slower but so much easier on my hands. Yes, I could get emacs evil or spacemacs or whatever but bolting on modality to an…

> Vim is only slightly slower

Both vim and neovim (be it in TUI or GUI form) are faster than Emacs.

https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/#summary

Re: Get things done with Emacs

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Post by comfypotato »

b3morales wrote: post #21
todd8 wrote: post #8

Thank you for the detailed write up. (I hope the author sees this) I'm always impressed with Emacs users that are capable of such discipline. I've use Emacs well over forty years, with only a few years of interruption, but I have never had a stable or well organized configuration. It's inspirational to see other's use of Emacs. I'm disorganized, and I'm a hoarder (right now, my bedroom has at least 100 books stacked…

Sounds like you have a flourishing Anti-library: https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antili... > Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there.

Sorry for being dense, but I couldn’t deduce from the source; does the “anti” just mean “unread”?

Re: Get things done with Emacs

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Post by tmtvl »

stephc_int13 wrote: post #12
f1shy wrote: post #9

Sorry, off-topic question: does somebody happen to know what tool was used to make this page? I really like the style.

The layout and styling are very nice. However, the main text color is lacking contrast, either the font is too thin or its color too light. I can read it, but it is borderline uncomfortable. I don't mind a bit of softened contrast, but in this case, this is a bit too much.

The enumerations (Chapter 1, 1.1,...) are a bit too soft for me, I prefer decent contrast a la Modus Operandi over some of the barely visible text of Nano themes.

Re: Get things done with Emacs

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Post by jhoechtl »

abudabi123 wrote: post #22
ctrlrsf wrote: post #13

How do you save screenshots?

On KDE/Debian/Linux I use the Spectacle Screenshot Capture Utility. The next version Emacs 29.0 may get screenshot builtin and a better way to keep the configuration file manageable. See https://planet.emacslife.com

> The next version Emacs 29.0 may get screenshot builtin

That would be sooo darn nice

Re: Get things done with Emacs

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Post by MichaelCollins »

djha-skin wrote: post #23

Richard stallman himself got repetitive strain injury from emacs. So many people have. They tell you to remap the key to caps lock they tell you to use your palm instead of your finger they tell you to get a weird keyboard but at the end of the day it was just poorly designed. Vim is only slightly slower but so much easier on my hands. Yes, I could get emacs evil or spacemacs or whatever but bolting on modality to an…

I think that emacs with evil mode is a superior vi-like editor than either NeoVim or Bram's Vim. I haven't found the docs to be an issue, I don't need the emacs docs to tell me how evil works because I already had years of experience with Vim before switching to evil+emacs.

Re: Get things done with Emacs

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Post by ghosty141 »

djha-skin wrote: post #23

Richard stallman himself got repetitive strain injury from emacs. So many people have. They tell you to remap the key to caps lock they tell you to use your palm instead of your finger they tell you to get a weird keyboard but at the end of the day it was just poorly designed. Vim is only slightly slower but so much easier on my hands. Yes, I could get emacs evil or spacemacs or whatever but bolting on modality to an…

Just use EVIL? For me its the best of both worlds, vim for text editing and elisp for extensibility
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