I switched from VSCode to Doom Emacs a couple of months ago.
I've been using ChatGPT (GPT-4) to help me write config (~1,000 lines of elisp code so far) and it's been very interesting/fun. I'm not going back.
916 Days of Emacs
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#12I'd love to give it another try, but not convinced it's a good fit for me. Love it conceptually though. The stumbling block I usually come to is wondering how to utilize these data sets on my smartphone in an efficient and effective manner.
It does only work for a subset of org-mode functionality, but for TODOs and similar I find Orgzly on Android works great. I sync between my laptop and phone via Syncthing.
Wow! That's exactly what I hoped for. That's lovely looking.
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#13I'd love to give it another try, but not convinced it's a good fit for me. Love it conceptually though. The stumbling block I usually come to is wondering how to utilize these data sets on my smartphone in an efficient and effective manner.
I use emacs from termux frequently, even better if I use my bluetooth keyboard and hdmi out to a tv, but even though the text is small in normal mode I still prefer it to any of the fdroid emacs or org mode packages.
For those who worry about runaway configs, I highly suggest starting with sanemacs for a good minimal configuration you can start with and build from a good foundation on.
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#15I've been a hardcore vi user pretty much my entire life, but I decided to force myself to spend a year using emacs a while back just to see what all the fuss was about. When the year was over and I "allowed" myself to return to vi, it was like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders... to this day I still don't see what the hype was about. On the plus side, though, I memorized the emacs cursor movement commands, which are (for some reason) the default cursor movement commands in most command line environments like the Postgres CLI.
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#16I've been a hardcore vi user pretty much my entire life, but I decided to force myself to spend a year using emacs a while back just to see what all the fuss was about. When the year was over and I "allowed" myself to return to vi, it was like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders... to this day I still don't see what the hype was about. On the plus side, though, I memorized the emacs cursor movement commands, which…
I am surprised you didn’t use evil-mode to emulate the vim keybindings. Or was this a an attempt to use “pure” Emacs without packages and customization?
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#17I've been a hardcore vi user pretty much my entire life, but I decided to force myself to spend a year using emacs a while back just to see what all the fuss was about. When the year was over and I "allowed" myself to return to vi, it was like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders... to this day I still don't see what the hype was about. On the plus side, though, I memorized the emacs cursor movement commands, which…
They're the default keys because a lot of programs use the GNU readline package for line editing.
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#18I switched from VSCode to Doom Emacs a couple of months ago. I've been using ChatGPT (GPT-4) to help me write config (~1,000 lines of elisp code so far) and it's been very interesting/fun. I'm not going back.
very cool can you share more?
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#19How did you collect such detailed statistics of your usage that's the crazy part in my opinion not that you actually switch but you have the statistics to monitor the switch!
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#20I like the idea of emacs, but I notice its warmest advocates often make excuses for its slowness. If an editor doesn’t respond instantly I don’t want to use it.