I never stop discovering features in emacs, for example I found out about embedded calc mode yesterday. I was so impressed by it that I made a screencast demoing its features:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPMgj3XWi8Q
A new blog dedicated to Emacs
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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.
I used emacs every day for 2 years. Then I switched to Sublime Text.
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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...
I've played with it a few times, and just did again. The little "minimap" preview thing on the right side is cute (and disableable) -- it actually helps to provide an aesthetic indication as to when your file is Just Way Too Long. The visual display of tab characters is subtle and attractive, and probably useful to many people trapped in editors that do that stuff invisibly or wrong (it's not as good as dtrt-mode in…
People agreed re the minimap: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MiniMap
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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.
TRAMP. The sublime equivalent is terrible.
Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs
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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…
Even when it's not available, if vi is available chances are you can ask the administrator nicely to install emacs through a package manager. I just wish it were easier to use it on my local machine in a terminal but still maintain a GUI version as well.
> I just wish it were easier to use it on my local machine in a terminal but still maintain a GUI version as well.
Emacs? I use a nice GUI build from http://emacsformacosx.com/. It runs great in both the GUI and shell.
Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs
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example?
A web-browser inside your editor? A mail client inside your editor? The ability to make HTTP-requests, parse their results, and format the results inside your existing editor window?
You forgot the web server :-) http://emacswiki.org/emacs/Elnode
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#48I love emacs, I really do. It is really hard to share customizations with git for emacs in my experience. Right now I'm using prelude + some customizations. I can keep my fork of the prelude repo on my account, and add stuff to /personal . But other than cherry-picks, which would probably get difficult, I really don't know how to contribute back to prelude. pulling the latest version of prelude (or any other preset e…
I have two macs that both run emacs. I have a private git repository for my .emacs.d folder (an old mirror can be found here: https://github.com/elarkin/.emacs.d ). I have taken special care to make sure that the init.el file is readable, and can be used with a fresh copy of emacs (without any packages installed) and everything works just fine. If you want to try it, just brew install emacs --cocoa and clone the repo…
My emacs automatically downloads and installs all my used packages on first startup on a fresh install. Literally all I have to do on a new box is clone my dotfiles and start emacs.
Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs
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example?
A web-browser inside your editor? A mail client inside your editor? The ability to make HTTP-requests, parse their results, and format the results inside your existing editor window?
Editor? I do not think that word means what you think it means!
Emacs is an abstraction layer for a non-preemptively threaded virtual machine, one application of which involves editing text, sound, video, images, etc.
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Here's a twitter search for new stuff https://twitter.com/search?q=emacs%20exclude%3Aretweets%20fi...
i feel like a dog, i don't know what should i do with so many cars and no RSS reader to subscribe!
You can read RSS feeds in Emacs with Gnus:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusRss