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A new blog dedicated to Emacs
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Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs
#22with so many emacs users having their own unique setups, a site dedicated to just emacs setups would be great too
Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs
#23with so many emacs users having their own unique setups, a site dedicated to just emacs setups would be great too
It's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure how useful it'd be.
The reason Emacs users have their own unique setups is because they tailor the environment to their specific uses and preferences. That's going to be different for everybody.
Posting the entire configuration would add a lot of code that most people just wouldn't be interested in. It's easier to call out the interesting parts.
Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs
#24Earlier 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.
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.
Yes, you can do all of those things with sublime's API (https://github.com/wuub/SublimeREPL, https://github.com/SublimeText/Origami). Yes, emacs is more extensible, but not where it matters, really. I.e., I don't think you're going to see any cool feature made with elisp that can't be ported to sublime.
Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs
#25This 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.
Never try to use anything you're not already familiar with, got it.
Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs
#26This 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.
No need to decipher elisp. It's pretty simple and straight forward. Being able to express something is not unique to Python. Any language would do.
Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs
#27with so many emacs users having their own unique setups, a site dedicated to just emacs setups would be great too
Here are some dot file sites.
Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs
#28Emacs Rocks is pretty sweet too: http://emacsrocks.com/
Very cool! This makes working with HTML such a breeze: http://emacsrocks.com/e12.html
"do I file an issue with the emacs developers hoping it is voted on enough to make into the next version? Hell no! This is emacs. I fix it myself!"
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
and http://emacs-fu.blogspot.ru/
and one more with screencasts: http://killring.org/hack-emacs/
and another one worth checking, emacsmovies -http://emacsmovies.org/
Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs
#30This 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.
One of the things about emacs is its on almost every machine you can find accessible by terminal.
Except when its not, which is why I know enough vi commands to do really simple things. (vi seems to be on every *nix machine without fail).
I'll fully admit that the configuration and lisp scripts are confusing in emacs. Its almost too configurable. But they are amazingly powerful. Plus emacs has the indispensable (M-x tetris)...
I've looked at Sublime, its a beautiful editor though. It seems to have some good tricks up its sleave as well