Nice. I have a similar blog http://justinsboringpage.blogspot.ca
A new blog dedicated to Emacs
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Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs
#12Emacs Rocks is pretty sweet too: http://emacsrocks.com/
and http://www.masteringemacs.org/
Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs
#13This is how Emacs is different from other editors. Like the blog posts show - you start with a need and try to find how the existing Emacs LISP code is written. Next, you try to customize it to your need. Finally, you assign it to a keyboard shortcut. You adapt Emacs to your workflow, just like you adapt Lisp to your problem domain.
Seems similar to Sublime Text 2.
Except for the part where you're stuck trying to decipher existing Emacs Lisp. With Python I find I can express what I'm trying to do without too much thought.
Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs
#14Emacs? Really? xD Why not vi? (Then proceeds to spark a flamewar :3)
Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs
#15This is how Emacs is different from other editors. Like the blog posts show - you start with a need and try to find how the existing Emacs LISP code is written. Next, you try to customize it to your need. Finally, you assign it to a keyboard shortcut. You adapt Emacs to your workflow, just like you adapt Lisp to your problem domain.
Seems similar to Sublime Text 2. Except for the part where you're stuck trying to decipher existing Emacs Lisp. With Python I find I can express what I'm trying to do without too much thought.
Regarding sublime's API, can you split windows? Invoke subprocesses, and create REPLs?
Genuinely curious, but I think you can do a lot more with Emacs' APIs, and modify core parts of the editor since most of it is written in ELisp and you can easily swap out functions.
Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
and http://www.masteringemacs.org/
and http://emacs-fu.blogspot.ru/
and one more with screencasts: http://killring.org/hack-emacs/
Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs
#17This is how Emacs is different from other editors. Like the blog posts show - you start with a need and try to find how the existing Emacs LISP code is written. Next, you try to customize it to your need. Finally, you assign it to a keyboard shortcut. You adapt Emacs to your workflow, just like you adapt Lisp to your problem domain.
Seems similar to Sublime Text 2. Except for the part where you're stuck trying to decipher existing Emacs Lisp. With Python I find I can express what I'm trying to do without too much thought.
ST2's plugin interface and Emacs's interpreter are about a similar as Excel is to R, or an Accord is to an F1 car.
ST2's plugin interface may be nice and sufficient for most "normal" tasks, but there plenty of things you simply cannot do.
Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems similar to Sublime Text 2. Except for the part where you're stuck trying to decipher existing Emacs Lisp. With Python I find I can express what I'm trying to do without too much thought.
ST2's plugin interface and Emacs's interpreter are about a similar as Excel is to R, or an Accord is to an F1 car. ST2's plugin interface may be nice and sufficient for most "normal" tasks, but there plenty of things you simply cannot do.
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Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs
#19This is how Emacs is different from other editors. Like the blog posts show - you start with a need and try to find how the existing Emacs LISP code is written. Next, you try to customize it to your need. Finally, you assign it to a keyboard shortcut. You adapt Emacs to your workflow, just like you adapt Lisp to your problem domain.
Seems similar to Sublime Text 2. Except for the part where you're stuck trying to decipher existing Emacs Lisp. With Python I find I can express what I'm trying to do without too much thought.
If you took the time to learn elisp, you'd experience the same ease with emacs.
You didn't always know python.
You learned it.
I own and use Sublime Text 2 -- and I do enjoy it. I also use and enjoy emacs.
Sublime Text 2 is far prettier...
Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs
#20Many excellent links posted in this thread, thanks to everyone. I also find /r/emacs on reddit interesting.