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Two Years of Emacs Solo

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Re: Two Years of Emacs Solo

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Post by throwaway27448 »

rkomorn wrote: post #57
dhosek wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because any mention of Emacs must bring out the vi people, just as any mention of vi must bring out the Emacs people. Because you people are cracking your eggs from the wrong end!

> Because you people are cracking your eggs from the wrong end! That's because both ends are wrong. Eggs should be cracked from the side. Can't believe this still needs to be said on this forum in 2026.

> Can't believe this still needs to be said on this forum in 2026.

And we still don't have a usable editor outside of emacs

Re: Two Years of Emacs Solo

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Post by krig »

NetOpWibby wrote: post #27

I’m always impressed by people who are hardcore EMacs or Vim devs, their setups are impressive af. I’m a GUI guy though. As soon as I try delving in, I abort when I see things like “just type c-C dingle bob to do x thing.” I’m happy these people found something that works with their brains. I just want a GUI that works like what they use. I recently saw a Zed fork stripped of AI stuff but there’s no binaries yet (you…

There are binaries for Mac here:

https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram/releases/tag/1.0.0

The binary release for Linux is a bit rough, there's an `install.sh` script in the repo which can install the tarball for you. For the next release there will be flatpaks, .deb and .rpm available.

Re: Two Years of Emacs Solo

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Post by MonkeyClub »

raverbashing wrote: post #126
obezyian wrote: post #98

> Disabling C-z (suspend) because accidentally suspending Emacs in a terminal is never fun This reminds me of a story from a past job. I have to get it out of my system. There was this bearded sysadmin guy who was very proud of his "15 years of experience", and was quick to scold us new employees for every little thing he could. He used vim, and every now and then would say that it's a good editor, but kinda "unstabl…

Interesting story, but I'm surprised the OP would disable Cmd-z because that is used all the time with vim I know you might prefer to run a shell on emacs (or vim) but something only the full terminal can do what you need it to do

> but something only the full terminal can do what you need it to do

There's always `M-x term` for a full terminal.

Re: Two Years of Emacs Solo

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Post by jlarocco »

k_bx wrote: post #140
jlarocco wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I won't defend the automatic backup file, because it annoyed me, too. But it's easy to disable or have them created somewhere else, which is more than you can say for most software lately.

I just realized that `apt install emacs-nox` is a great editor in containers and VMs. I just have to disable it every damn time (for regular and root user). Defaults would be better.

I don't mean to be condescending, but since you just learned about emacs-nox... If you haven't already, try tramp mode to edit files in containers and VMs. It also lets you edit local files using sudo.

There's also a docker package for managing containers - similar concept and UI to magit, but for managing Docker. Not as life changing as magit, but convenient.

Anyway, the problem with changing the default after all this time is that everybody would want the new default to be different, and changing it now would meaning breaking things for long time users who depend on the current default. And TBH if you're setting up a container and installing Emacs, it's very little extra work to copy over a .emacs file that fixes everything the way you like.

Re: Two Years of Emacs Solo

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Post by NetOpWibby »

thunfischbrot wrote: post #28
NetOpWibby wrote: post #27

I’m always impressed by people who are hardcore EMacs or Vim devs, their setups are impressive af. I’m a GUI guy though. As soon as I try delving in, I abort when I see things like “just type c-C dingle bob to do x thing.” I’m happy these people found something that works with their brains. I just want a GUI that works like what they use. I recently saw a Zed fork stripped of AI stuff but there’s no binaries yet (you…

The Zed fork sounds interesting! What was the Apple Dev account needed for? Previously I remember it was only needed for submitting apps to the App Store, not running Dev builds locally.

Last I checked it was just to notarize the app but I went back to the fork to remember and now there are binaries! https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram

Re: Two Years of Emacs Solo

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Post by sshine »

jibal wrote: post #138
jibal wrote: post #78

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There was no mention of ~foo

P.S. I'm not wrong. Perhaps someone got confused about what "suffix" means.

It’s not that you are wrong.

Just that the message does not contribute to the conversation.

Neither does this one.

Re: Two Years of Emacs Solo

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Post by jibal »

sshine wrote: post #146
jibal wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

P.S. I'm not wrong. Perhaps someone got confused about what "suffix" means.

It’s not that you are wrong. Just that the message does not contribute to the conversation. Neither does this one.

But it DID contribute to the conversation ... it corrected an error/misunderstanding. If I didn't think I was contributing, I wouldn't have commented. You seem to have a different ethic.

I won't comment further, as we are now off topic (thanks to you).

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