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282 hours of configuration! If we subtract the weekends from that 916 days, that's an average of about 45 mins a day fiddling with config. I don't even want to spend 45 mins a month fiddling with config. I really don't understand Emacs people.
282 hours of configuration! If we subtract the weekends from that 916 days, that's an average of about 45 mins a day fiddling with config. I don't even want to spend 45 mins a month fiddling with config. I really don't understand Emacs people.
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> There’s really nothing killer in Emacs 1. Org mode 2. Magit 3. Wdired 4. Synergy between various components (shameless plug: https://mbork.pl/2023-01-30_The_benefits_of_everything_being... )
1. Org mode - I will admit that I'm not a fan of org mode and find it to be oversold and another time waster for people who are already wasting time configuring their editors. I personally use vimwiki, there is a vim plugin for org mode. 2. Magit - Tim Pope is the pope of Vim plugins and fugitive is easily as good or better than Magit. I have never had any issue doing any sort of complex task in git or fixing conflic…
On the contrary, Emacs tries to do just one thing: provide an Elisp runtime for other applications. It does this fairly well.
Do not confuse Elisp applications like evil, org, calc, magit, etc. with Emacs itself!
I'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 had a similar experience, but came to the opposite conclusion. I walked away replacing vim with emacs as my daily driver. Elisp is far more extensible than vimscript and evil-mode is pretty much at 1-1 feature parity with the real vim. I don't care much for the emacs movement keybindings except for the readline movement commands. > to this day I still don't see what the hype was about. Most of vim is written in C w…
If you are editing a remote file there's usually no need to SSH and then invoke an editor.
How 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!
282 hours of configuration! If we subtract the weekends from that 916 days, that's an average of about 45 mins a day fiddling with config. I don't even want to spend 45 mins a month fiddling with config. I really don't understand Emacs people.
The whole point of emacs is that it’s not “fiddling with config”, it’s programming. Which is an activity a lot of people enjoy. Emacs is essentially an IDE for developing emacs.
the .vimrc I've been using for like 7 years has 8 lines
282 hours of configuration! If we subtract the weekends from that 916 days, that's an average of about 45 mins a day fiddling with config. I don't even want to spend 45 mins a month fiddling with config. I really don't understand Emacs people.
That being said, I'm also one of those people that break my Emacs config often, and I have a different version on each PC I use.
Not every user is like this though! Many try to keep their setup as stable as possible.
The first 916 days of Emacs are always the hardest.
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The whole point of emacs is that it’s not “fiddling with config”, it’s programming. Which is an activity a lot of people enjoy. Emacs is essentially an IDE for developing emacs.
Plus, with time it becomes more like writing programs and less configuration. I write Elisp commands like I used to write shell scripts. These commands do entirely new things. I feel that can't count as mere configuration.
(while (not (eobp))
(while (not (markdown-table-at-point-p))
(forward-char 1))
(markdown-table-align)
(goto-char (markdown-table-end)))