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Do people recommend the use of emacs over vim on servers? (Mainly editing server config files and reading long logs) Any good plugins to enhance its use for this use case?
I have pretty much ignored emacs for the last 15 years when I felt it didn't act as snappy as vim.
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This is the /real/ killer feature for me that I would find very difficult to live without and I don't know of any other editors that offer this functionality. Being able to remotely open my editor (either from a terminal, or with X11 forwarding) with all the files I have open, exactly where I left off is incredibly useful.
Any benefit over using screen/tmux?
Other big benefit is starting emacsclient is basically instant, so opening a file from a webbrowser or whatever is super fast (some folks have 30 second or longer emacs startup times).
Only real downside is it really sucks bringing back your state when emacs crashes and you have hundreds of buffers open for multiple projects across 20-30 emacs clients.
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This is the /real/ killer feature for me that I would find very difficult to live without and I don't know of any other editors that offer this functionality. Being able to remotely open my editor (either from a terminal, or with X11 forwarding) with all the files I have open, exactly where I left off is incredibly useful.
I never really learned screen because daemonised emacs sufficed for me. My daemon uptimes are normally the same as my system uptimes, with the one on my VPS currently at 77 days. A few years ago, I started using one daemon per project with server-use-tcp, each with a slightly different theme so I can easily tell them apart. (posted from emacs-w3m)
I tried vscode the other day to see what it's about and it's nice, but I found plugin development convoluted and very limiting compared to emacs. No chance of quickly writing a script to automate something in the editor, because it takes so much time that it's not worth it for quick editor code snippets. Other editor users simply have no concept of how easy it is to whip up some quick script to perform some task in e…
> Other editor users simply have no concept of how easy it is to whip up some quick script to perform some task in emacs. I don't want to start a flamewar, but I moved most things I was doing in Emacs to Textadept a while back because I found Textadept more convenient. That's not to say TA does everything you can do in Emacs, but it replaced all of the scripting I was doing with Emacs. You have the full power of Lua…