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Re: Emacs Is My New Window Manager

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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?

Try Spacemacs: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs 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.

Thanks for this, looks like like a better, more encompassing version of the evil-mode + customisations that I've hacked together thus far for emacs.

Amongst many other changes I've remapped the spacebar (while in normal mode) to send a C-x, colon (:) to send a M-x, so I have access to a ton of emacs commands while mainly just using vim.

Re: Emacs Is My New Window Manager

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post #146

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Which I bind to f6 for convenience.

I've never understood claims that function keys are convenient, but I guess it's because I don't use them that much.

I agree that they are less convenient than the control key sequence, but better than the up arrow trick.

And it is a little worse on the kinesis, as the function keys are not the same quality as the rest of the keys.

Re: Emacs Is My New Window Manager

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post #24

No bad for a first try, but my goal is cat /proc/cmdline initrd=/install/initrd.gz quiet init=/usr/bin/emacs

Half a decade ago when I was using a slow-booting (2min?) netbook, I sometimes used both this and init=/usr/bin/python when I wanted to test some idea real quick.

Re: Emacs Is My New Window Manager

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post #125

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Looking at his user info, it looks like this might be it: https://github.com/julienchastang/dotemacs/blob/master/setti... It looks like it's meant to be included directly as a config file, which seems like deep magic to me. :-)

@math0ne @gknoy Sorry for answering late: https://github.com/julienchastang/dotemacs You'll need tangle/babel ➜ .emacs.d cat init.el (package-initialize) (require 'cl) (require 'ob-tangle) (org-babel-load-file "~/git/dotemacs/settings.org") https://github.com/julienchastang/vagrant (still a work in progress)

Thanks man!
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