I’ve seen various opinions about eglot vs lsp-mode… anybody care to explain if eglot is better and in general why it was chosen for inclusion in emacs?
Emacs 29 is nigh
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Re: Emacs 29 is nigh
#82Watching 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…
For me it was org-mode. Emacs is basically my org mode interface.
I've used emacs for ~15 years now and never really get into org-mode, I have a directory of org files that I use for writing and keeping some kind of personal wiki but it's just a bunch of org files. I never successfully build a workflow around it.
I see that I'm missing something but I don't know where to start. Org-roam seems interesting.
Do you have any recommendation for how to use org-mode productively?
Re: Emacs 29 is nigh
#83Watching 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 jus…
> Also: same keyboard interface to everything.
I still have to look up how to add hooks (decades into using Emacs as my primary editor).
But using the same shortcuts in every readline prompt is just so comforting.
Re: Emacs 29 is nigh
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#85I 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.
you can try https://github.com/manateelazycat/lsp-bridge
When I wrote that comment, in the depths of my soul, I knew someone would give a solution that needs me to invest more time in figuring out how to incorporate it into my oversized configuration.
But seriously, thank you, that is the performance I was looking for.
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#86I am loving all this emacs love lately (I am an emacsophile), but I do find all this attention it is getting suddenly a bit surprising. Is it just that "long lines, LSP, fast syntax hightlighting" is making new people interested, or is it just us neckbeards coming out of the woods? I mean, many of these things are just a package-install away right now. I seldom see vim put in the same lime-light, for instance. Or may…
For me its been the questionable stewardship of vscode ( https://github.com/omnisharp/omnisharp-vscode/issues/5276 ) driving me away from vscode and the Emacs from Scratch videos from the System Crafters youtube channel driving me towards Emacs. When I was looking for alternatives I stumbled on those videos and they blew me away. Also Emacs 28/29 has been way more welcoming and easy to get started with than when I fi…
System Crafters youtube channel driving me towards Emacs
I really don't get how watching a PM-type struggle with emacs for two hours at a spell is compelling or instructive. I can struggle with emacs all by myself.
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#87Wow, Eglot/Treesitter/better package support in 29 make me want to try Emacs again. > Install packages from source with package.el Emacs users updating to 29: do you plan to use this instead of Straight now? If not, can you help me to understand what more Straight provides? Emacs on macOS users: do you generally compile new versions of Emacs from source, or wait for ports like Mitsuharu Yamamoto's one[1] to update? […
The railwaycat build is the only version of Emacs I've found to work with Magnet (https://magnet.crowdcafe.com).
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me it was org-mode. Emacs is basically my org mode interface.
I've used emacs for ~15 years now and never really get into org-mode, I have a directory of org files that I use for writing and keeping some kind of personal wiki but it's just a bunch of org files. I never successfully build a workflow around it. I see that I'm missing something but I don't know where to start. Org-roam seems interesting. Do you have any recommendation for how to use org-mode productively?
Like yourself, I don't do anything fancy. Just plain org files. However,
I do use org-journal [1], though, so I can ctrl-c ctrl-j to add a new entry, and have it automatically wired up for rotating the file monthly. I use this for adding new items and having speedy access. But that's it. I don't use Agenda or any of that fancy stuff, so don't feel guilty that you're missing out.
Re: Emacs 29 is nigh
#89Watching 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 was a great editor just like Nirvana was a great band. It’s influenced every other editor after it.
People are always going to love it. But I think all the best ideas from that era have been taken.
I like Vim but EMacs won the editor wars
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#90I highly recommend modern Emacs over VSCode. If you don't want to tinker, Emacs has multiple levels of preconfigured distributions like Prelude, Nano, and Doom Emacs that give the same out of the box working experience. Modern Emacs includes all of the great features of VSCode, plus much more. You get things like: - LSP support for completion, refactoring, listing. - Tree sitter support for super fast highlighting. -…
Switched to Doom Emacs about a year or two ago it has been the biggest improvement in my tools as a developer since becoming proficient with the CLI. That being said there is a bit of a learning curve.
The learning curve can be steep especially if you are used to other keybindings. For vim users, I heard only good things about evil-mode (and it's the default in doom). I personally use default emacs bindings (with a switch between Meta and Ctrl as the Ctrl key is usually poorly located on keyboards).