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This is awesome and has opened my eyes to features of emacs I didn't know about. But I still have use for tmux because it lets me attach to the same long-running session on a remote host from multiple clients. I'll probably just start having emacs be the only window open in my tmux session.
Check out emacs-server then ;).
The OP uses (set-frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen 'fullboth). In contrast, I use (set-frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen 'maximized) leaving OS X's menu bar and Dock on the screen. I do not know if Homebrew package `emacs` has been fixed because these years, I only ever install Homebrew package `emacs-mac` (a.k.a., Mitsuharu Emacs) but it used to be that one had to install Emacs.app via `brew install emacs-mac` instead o…
How does this handle multiple displays?
In contrast, (set-frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen 'fullboth) does make use of Lion's fullscreen mode -- and it gets rid of the menu bar and the Dock, letting the Emacs frame occupy every screen pixel. But then at least on Lion and Mountain Lion (which is the extent of my experience with recent versions of OS X) multi-monitor support is hosed IIUC.
My impression has been that emacs is a poor window manager. Granted, I am not incredibly skilled with emacs but even after some weeks I was still confused by the way emacs opened up new windows or changed existing windows when you've clicked on something (for instance, in dired or org-mode's agenda) I ended up to open everything in a new frame and left the management of these frames to awesomewm.
More modern modes usually behave well. Magit, for example, uses windows correctly.
Here is an example of how I used advice to fix bad mouse behavior (yes, I use the mouse sometimes to switch windows): http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/7347/preventing-mou...
I'm a vim guy, but I've been wanting to try emacs for a long time. Any tip for a convert like me? Is the "trick" just to make the jump and persist until it clicks? How do I still get my job done in the mean time?
Being a Vim user of 4+ years, and having made 2 previous attempts at switching to Emacs, this is the setup that finally made me immediately productive enough to get work done. Been using this as my primary environment for more than a month now.
BTW, off topic, but re: having a personal environment while at work: I was fortunate to work at Google for a while in 2013 and I was uncomfortable having any personal setups on my work Linux box or laptop. My solution was simple: I just used my Android phone for personal email, checking Hacker News, etc. during my lunch break. I also have a SSH shell app on my phone so in an emergency I could have accessed my personal servers. Anyway, it seems odd to spend too much effort setting up a personal environment for use at work :-)
I think the main issue is that I have different operating models for emacs vs a terminal and when they get mashed together I subconsciously want a superset of functionality without any conflicts. So when there are key bindings that are different in term mode I get quite annoyed. Likewise, I have no problem with copy/paste in an xterm or in emacs, but put a terminal inside emacs and copy/paste frustrates me all day.
I'm always a little jealous when I see what people do with emacs. But I've never liked using emacs, so I've resigned myself to a permanent, mild case of emacs envy. I think you could get approximately his same functionality with a terminal (e.g urxvt) and tmux for the splitting. In fact I do essentially that at work on Windows, from a cygwin terminal and tmux. When it fits whatever workflow I'm doing from within cygw…
The nice thing about Emacs is how much it's open to modification. There are compatibility modes to make it work like other editors (eg. "evil mode" to make it work more like Vi, "cua mode" to use "normal" key combos instead of having to learn Emacs's, etc.). There are often a bunch of alternative ways to do things, which have their own pros and cons, so if something seems frustrating, it pays to Google around a littl…
It's also kinda nice setting up emacs in a cygwin that winds up being relatively consistent with mac.
I'm a vim guy, but I've been wanting to try emacs for a long time. Any tip for a convert like me? Is the "trick" just to make the jump and persist until it clicks? How do I still get my job done in the mean time?
After years of using vim I made the switch last Friday when I stumbled across this fellow's blog post while randomly trying to figure out more about evil mode: http://juanjoalvarez.net/es/detail/2014/sep/19/vim-emacsevil... It took all day Saturday to configure things so they mostly behaved the same as my vim environment, mixed with learning emacs specific stuff along the way. There's a few quirks I still need to wor…
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He says that his work is virtualization systems, so the install of (e.g.) VirtualBox itself is not "personal software." It really comes down to whether or not you consider the guest OS image running in the virtualization system to be "installing personal software."
Most IP reassignments I've ever signed have included the clause "any IP developed with the company's resources belongs to the company". This would include anything created in such a VM, unfortunately. So, if you're not worried about that, it's a great separation of concerns. If you are developing new IP, though, you would want to be very careful about using your work machine. I'm even nervous about logging into a per…
You are right though that anything done using "company resources" may be fair game for a legal battle to determine ownership.