The language support is great with Emacs 29. Hope it work well with LSP modes/servers.
On a tangent anyone knows a good LSP setup or LSP server for Javascript?
Emacs 29 is nigh
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#62>For all three HaikuOS users out there, good news, you now have access to Emacs! (In all seriousness, I should check out HaikuOS one day)
That's great news!
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#63I really want to use Emacs but I can't get Company + any LSP to come close to vs code or coc.nvim. When I configure company to trigger instantly on a single keystroke, Emacs completely locks up pretty much every time I hit a key.
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#64Watching the Emacs community, I’m always just blown away by the love and adoration it gets. It’s clear to me that there’s something magical in it, but I can’t seem to tap that magic for myself. I’ve tried - really tried, including relearning lisp - to adopt Emacs roughly four times over my career; it never stuck. I understand the basic benefits, eg keyboard-optimized workflows, deep customization/malleability, etc. B…
What I tell my programming friends is that if you can see yourself molding your computer user-interface as sort of a hobby, then emacs is most definately for you.
If you don't see that as a fun past-time activity, then I would not recommend emacs.
For instance, (in my emacs email client) I just made a change where if I want to search the subject I am looking at, and it has a #XXX in it, then the subject search is just that number. Makes me able to quickly load up all emails related to that ticket. This makes me happy.
Also: same keyboard interface to everything.
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#65The language support is great with Emacs 29. Hope it work well with LSP modes/servers. On a tangent anyone knows a good LSP setup or LSP server for Javascript?
I use web-mode + typescript-language-server for React+TSX. Whether or not you choose to use eglot or lsp-mode, I'd still recommend following the lsp-mode performance guide: https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/page/performance/. Those tips are useful for all setups.
(use-package web-mode
:ensure t
:mode (("\\.ts\\'" . web-mode)
("\\.js\\'" . web-mode)
("\\.mjs\\'" . web-mode)
("\\.tsx\\'" . web-mode)
("\\.jsx\\'" . web-mode))
:config
(setq web-mode-content-types-alist
'(("jsx" . "\\.js[x]?\\'"))))
(use-package eglot
:ensure t
:hook (web-mode . eglot-ensure))Re: Emacs 29 is nigh
#66Watching the Emacs community, I’m always just blown away by the love and adoration it gets. It’s clear to me that there’s something magical in it, but I can’t seem to tap that magic for myself. I’ve tried - really tried, including relearning lisp - to adopt Emacs roughly four times over my career; it never stuck. I understand the basic benefits, eg keyboard-optimized workflows, deep customization/malleability, etc. B…
Emacs is a lifestyle and it takes time to get into it. The jokes are pretty spot on - it's a wonderful operating system; it only needs a decent text editor.
You'd probably have to "dedicate" yourself to it for a month or more (and having a "mentor" or support group that can answer questions and telling you there's an easier way to do it would help).
It was MUCH more powerful (relative) when we didn't have much beyond a terminal emulator.
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#67Watching the Emacs community, I’m always just blown away by the love and adoration it gets. It’s clear to me that there’s something magical in it, but I can’t seem to tap that magic for myself. I’ve tried - really tried, including relearning lisp - to adopt Emacs roughly four times over my career; it never stuck. I understand the basic benefits, eg keyboard-optimized workflows, deep customization/malleability, etc. B…
I find people who like working with plain text tend to love Emacs or similar editor ecosystems. I really enjoy having almost all my workflows in one place, and once you get a handle on some keybindings you can manipulate text so fast and so cleanly it can be satisfying. I also know people who love things like shared editing of tasks, reminders with color highlights, etc. and they tend to not like Emacs. PS: I don't listen to music or plain text browse the Web in Emacs but I know people who do :D
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#68Watching the Emacs community, I’m always just blown away by the love and adoration it gets. It’s clear to me that there’s something magical in it, but I can’t seem to tap that magic for myself. I’ve tried - really tried, including relearning lisp - to adopt Emacs roughly four times over my career; it never stuck. I understand the basic benefits, eg keyboard-optimized workflows, deep customization/malleability, etc. B…
It's like a Bloomberg Terminal for programmers.
Re: Emacs 29 is nigh
#69Watching the Emacs community, I’m always just blown away by the love and adoration it gets. It’s clear to me that there’s something magical in it, but I can’t seem to tap that magic for myself. I’ve tried - really tried, including relearning lisp - to adopt Emacs roughly four times over my career; it never stuck. I understand the basic benefits, eg keyboard-optimized workflows, deep customization/malleability, etc. B…
I feel you and you are not the only one. For me it was the time sink every time I wanted emacs to do something different, it was fun for a while (3 years) but now I want to spend my time elsewhere. Also Elisp kinda sucks.
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#70Watching the Emacs community, I’m always just blown away by the love and adoration it gets. It’s clear to me that there’s something magical in it, but I can’t seem to tap that magic for myself. I’ve tried - really tried, including relearning lisp - to adopt Emacs roughly four times over my career; it never stuck. I understand the basic benefits, eg keyboard-optimized workflows, deep customization/malleability, etc. B…
Emacs is a lifestyle and it takes time to get into it. The jokes are pretty spot on - it's a wonderful operating system; it only needs a decent text editor. You'd probably have to "dedicate" yourself to it for a month or more (and having a "mentor" or support group that can answer questions and telling you there's an easier way to do it would help). It was MUCH more powerful (relative) when we didn't have much beyond…
I don't know why you are being downvoted - I agree. I do just that.
Last paragraph though I do not agree with at all.