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I've said it before, and I'll say it again... Editing text is a solved problem: vim or emacs. Pick one and get back to work.
Also feels good to have vim bindings inside of emacs using evil ( http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil ).
I make no claim that emacs keybindings are superior to vim's native keybindings, but for whatever reason, I type more naturally using them at this point. (Which somewhat mystifies me, since for years I used vi/vim as a primary editor with it's normal keybindings.)
I still think that vim keybindings are faster than Emacs for actually editing text, but the emacs keybindings feel more pleasant to me (unless I'm using something without a dedicated control key - like a phone or tablet).
This feels like an article about a religion or cult, not a software program. I just don't get it. Ever since newer editors got block editing or multiple insertion cursors, and RegEx find & replace across multiple files, and searching filenames to open... I feel like I've already got everything I need! What am I missing out on? I don't feel like my text editor holds back my productivity. Using something like Sublime,…
You really have to sit down and see a vim user work to start to understand. In vim you don't just move around with arrows, then delete and then replace the text you want. What happens is you can use noun-verb associations to do things. For example on a line like this: var foo = "bar"; I could be at the beginning of the line and type the following keys to change the inside of the quotation marks: ci"baz In sublime I w…
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I don't understand vimmers, but I use Emacs and I can say that having your work environment be 100% programmable is pretty damned nice.
So what kind of stuff do you program inside of it? What kinds of problems do you solve? I mean, I've never really felt the need to program an add-on to text editor. I download syntax highlighting packages, and there are common macros like "remove trailing whitespace" already installed. Keyboard shortcuts can be changed in lots of editors and OS's. In the past, I've definitely been upset that a particular editor didn'…
- A little hook to use an external Python program (cheating, I know) to look up the definition of the word under the cursor in the OS X dictionary.
- Several customizations for org-mode, which I use for anything where I want to make an outline, including and especially to-do lists.
- I actually still have some code to do "smart tabs" (http://www.emacswiki.org/SmartTabs) for some modes, though that's now probably obsolete if I would only configure up the code mentioned in that list for C modes. (I'm already using it for e.g. Python code.)
- Some configuration for LaTeX editing, like packages AUCTeX doesn't know about, converting words/phrases into \gls (glossary) references.
I actually have less custom stuff in .emacs than I thought. Having a programmable editor does mean that it's relatively easy for other people to write some really useful stuff which I then get to use. I have some local modifications to other people's packages which I don't have time to enumerate right now.
My first week in college a distant relative of mine at the same school pulled me into the Sun lab. The sum-total of his instructions were: * This is how you log in. * This is ls. * This is cd. * This is man. * This is apropos. * Learn vi. * Have fun. What came from that 5 minute intro to Unix has been applied orders of magnitude more often than anything from 5 years of an EE degree.
Can you explain to me what apropos does?
My first week in college a distant relative of mine at the same school pulled me into the Sun lab. The sum-total of his instructions were: * This is how you log in. * This is ls. * This is cd. * This is man. * This is apropos. * Learn vi. * Have fun. What came from that 5 minute intro to Unix has been applied orders of magnitude more often than anything from 5 years of an EE degree.
Can you explain to me what apropos does?
$ man apropos
apropos searches a set of database files containing
short descriptions of system commands for keywords and
displays the result on the standard output.
For example: "I wonder how I copy a file."
$ apropos copy
$ apropos copy | grep "(1)"
cp (1) - copy files and directories
cpio (1) - copy files to and from archivesIt inspires the same kind of nostalgia.
http://everything2.com/title/You+have+a+sad+feeling+for+a+mo...
I've never found that symbols -> buffer is the bottleneck for me. Instead, it exists somewhere between problem -> symbols.
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You really have to sit down and see a vim user work to start to understand. In vim you don't just move around with arrows, then delete and then replace the text you want. What happens is you can use noun-verb associations to do things. For example on a line like this: var foo = "bar"; I could be at the beginning of the line and type the following keys to change the inside of the quotation marks: ci"baz In sublime I w…
If you're into that sort of thing, you can do Ctrl + F, bar in Sublime too. Most of the comparisons in this discussion between vim and non vim demonstrate high proficiency in vim, but not as much elsewhere. Of course you are more proficient in the tool you know best.
This feels like an article about a religion or cult, not a software program. I just don't get it. Ever since newer editors got block editing or multiple insertion cursors, and RegEx find & replace across multiple files, and searching filenames to open... I feel like I've already got everything I need! What am I missing out on? I don't feel like my text editor holds back my productivity. Using something like Sublime,…