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This is a great article, not least because of the tangential comments (e.g. that impact test of bicycle-style tubing was weirdly fascinating). All that's said about Emacs is true. I loved it for decades. And then my hand started cramping up because of the key chords. So I tried vim, and hated it for a few days, disliked it for a few more, and then started to like it. I'd never go back, now. Vim is certainly not as po…
It took me a few years to undertand this, but Emacs is not really a text editor. It is a development and runtime environment for a programming language that is especially useful for building text editors - and more generally, text-related, interactive programs -, and it happens to come bundled with a variety of such programs. But there are many, many more to discover out there on the Internet. In fact, in recent vers…
Always seemed to me less a text editor and more the intended user interface after rms and his gang of misfit lads finished herding up all the daemons into the eventual (past my expiration date) GNU/HURD. Turns out it was a Lisp machine all along! That said, I too have developed a renewed appreciation for Emacs these past few years.
Hehe, in retrospect it is so obvious, but I really did not see that coming.
The first time I got introduced to Emacs, I hated it. Who would like to read email inside a text editor with non-standard keybindings? I got it all wrong. It's not an editor, it's a text-mode virtual Lisp machine. The Emacs ecosystem has matured a lot lately. It has two applications I adore. Org, something impossible to describe in a few words, and Magit, the perfect Git porcelain. Plus it has 3 pretty darn good emai…
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I used Spacemacs for a while, but switched to a custom configuration with evil, general.el, and which-key. Spacemacs was excessively slow and I also often ran into strange bugs.
The upcoming .3 release will support a custom package archive. A lot of the bugginess in Spacemacs is caused by frequently pulling 100+ bleeding-edge MELPA packages.
Has anybody quantified the efficiency gains from using emacs to do work rather than conventional means? Are there certain areas (e.g. Mail, todo, notes,calendar,scheduling) that gains more efficiency than others?
I only really enjoyed Emacs once I learned some ELisp (I think I had tried is 2 or 3 times before that). Honestly I find these guides pretty useless b/c you can copy configs and hack together something without really understanding what you're doing but you'll eventually end up extremely frustrated and unable to work around the quirks and conflicts between configurations. I know the people behind Emacs like to think t…
It's true that you MUST learn Elisp to use Emacs effectively. That said, the thing with Lisp is it's a pretty simple language, and once you know one Lisp dialect learning another one isn't a big deal. As far as Elisp is concerned, you don't need to learn a vast library either. Most of the time you'll be setting variables, hooks and occasionally writing some small function.
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Emacs may need to be renamed to stEmacs, sixteen megs and constantly swapping. It's no longer 8 megs. :(
If you want tiny gnu editor, just use nano. They fixed the file corruption bug right?
I use it fairly regularly and the lack of any distracting UI is a fresh breeze compared to the overloaded editors out there.
Would you advise me to get a try to EMACS? i mostly program in python (django), using docker, kubernetes and so on. I'm using an IDE. On server i use vim (took me a while to understand the commands, but now i found it insanely clever on some comands)
Seems like lots of people here are sharing their experience with #emacs. I like it a lot, and think that it would be part of the ideal #workingset for me. However, I have never found a nice 'jump-to-definition that worked for most languages I edit on emacs. I tried ggtags, ctags, pygments. I think I had trouble setting all of these up, and they would not work for many languages I was using. I have not found a good re…
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If you think vi does basic text editing better, try Spacemacs! I switched over recently (the emacs pinky was real...) and I've really gotten to like the vim-y experience (although now I get really frustrated when I vim on a server and the search doesn't work like Spacemacs search).
I used Spacemacs for a while, but switched to a custom configuration with evil, general.el, and which-key. Spacemacs was excessively slow and I also often ran into strange bugs.