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Sure. Browser autocorrect there just tried to be helpful :/
I thought you were using emacs?
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I'm also a Doom user, albeit a new one. What is making you consider the switch?
Don't get me wrong, I'm loving Doom and have used it full time for a few years now. But over time I've started being uncomfortable with the fact that I don't fully understand the editor, don't fully appreciate the difference between what comes in as part of vanilla Emacs and as a Doom feature, and I feel like I am depending on a huge bunch of code and configuration I might not really even need. Selfishly I wasn't wil…
> I don't fully understand the editor
Going vanilla will not help you there - well, not completely anyway. Moreover, it may even obscure some features that were easily accesible before.
> I don't fully appreciate the difference between what comes in as part of vanilla Emacs and as a Doom feature
That is not very difficult - learn how to use built-in features - profiler, edebug, describe-, apropos-, hooks and advising, etc.; Start writing Elisp code (with understanding it). In the end, it won't really matter - whatever runs in your Emacs, there's always a way to get to the source. And if you ever need to disable any feature of Doom - there are multiple ways to do that.
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I thought you were using emacs?
Well, I've got to admit I've haven't read HN using emacs. Is there such a .el thing avalabnle somewhere? It would be great to read HN as it was with usenet news. Not joking, that would be excellent tools I'd like to have !
If you do any kind of serious work, you need a text editor. Emacs is still one of the best around. It's fast. It's configurable. And it's under your control. You won't suddenly find your text editor "upgraded" with tons of new features you never asked for. It's all opt-in.
> It's fast. super slow on windows
"Is anyone still using emacs?" Yes, 34 years and no plans to switch. Emacs cursor movement keystrokes are quite widely supported elsewhere too which use GNU readline or implement at least subset themselves. Those work well also besides shells with Chromium/Chrome/Safari etc. many browsers input fields (address bar and text area). Cisco IOS, Juniper Junos, Netscreen load balancers too etc. IMHO makes jumping around CL…
It's 26 years for me. Emacs is I believe the oldest software I still use. I started on an SGI Irix in 2000. I used it also on HP-UX, Solaris, Windows, MacOS, and of course all varieties of Linux
> Emacs cursor movement keystrokes are quite widely supported elsewhere too which use GNU readline or implement at least subset themselves.
And many keystrokes work on MacOS, too. That was a pleasant surprise when I got a Mac laptop for work.
Systems like Emacs that are hyper-configurable via a text file seem tailor made for modern LLM's. If you've got a little bit of Emacs experience but bounced off of it because the learning curve was too steep I highly recommend diving back in with your agent. Agents are really good at setting up and maintaining your .emacs/init.el.
I’ve always used vim/neovim but fell in love with some of the features of emacs (org, magit, lisp). My problem was spending the time to configure it though. Even with spaceman’s/doom and the amazing documentation it was always still so much work to configure emacs as a newer user. LLMS have made this nearly instant. This is a bit of a ramble but it’s so amazing having emacs and an LLM now, I don’t even touch vscode a…
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I'm a die-hard vimmer. I use vim-motions everywhere - they permeate my editors/IDEs, browsers, terminal, I use them system wide (e.g. to change volume or control media or my WM). One day I woke up with the realization of the fundamental truth - Emacs simply vims better. Much better than even Neovim. I just had to master Vim and grok some Lisp to arrive to that conclusion. People fighting Vim vs. Emacs are materially…
Almost all my vimming is in Emacs now. I started with Org mode - now I can't find any feature of any TODO application that Org mode doesn't do better.
"Is anyone still using emacs?" Yes, 34 years and no plans to switch. Emacs cursor movement keystrokes are quite widely supported elsewhere too which use GNU readline or implement at least subset themselves. Those work well also besides shells with Chromium/Chrome/Safari etc. many browsers input fields (address bar and text area). Cisco IOS, Juniper Junos, Netscreen load balancers too etc. IMHO makes jumping around CL…
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By all means go back to the lean, memory-efficient VS Code, then
There is a superior, faster and more efficient alternative just at your fingertips waiting to unleash its magnificent power if you would only dare to dream big.
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Huh? Emacs is inherently a modal editor - transients, isearch, keychords, M-x - these are all forms of modality. Vim-motions simply organizing that all into nice set of patterns - memorable and very practical. Besides, both Doom and Spacemacs absolutely can be used without Evil layer.
This is a ridiculous collapsing of the sense of what people by "modal editing" into a homogeneous conceptual soup. The core editing components of non-Evil emacs are direct manipulation, not modal. That there are modal aspects on top of that for doing things which practically/genuinely need a modal switch (command entry, search entry, etc) doesn't make the default emacs configuration a "modal editor" in any sense of w…
Sure I do, and there's so much tacit knowledge that I can't ever explain verbally or in writing that goes into it, to the point that arguments like yours, challenging my "choices" would ever feel less disingenuous. It's like forcing a left-handed kid to hold the pen "correctly", due to religious dogmas. It just works far more naturally for me and thousands of other people, and just because you don't get it, it doesn't make the model useless. Try to see the other side, sometimes "dumb" ideas do work, and shit that works maybe ain't that stupid.
> Doom and Spacemacs without Evil.. yes... but why
Great question. Now maybe you're trying to learn something despite of "years of the opposite experience" feeding to your hubris. Doom offers a set of Lisp macros that come very handy - map!, add-hook!, defadvice!, undefadvice!, add-transient-hook!, etc. - they genuinely can slash the inevitable boilerplate in the config. It's much easier to experiment with advising and instead then writing ad-remove-advice with different syntax, repeating the symbol names, etc., you'd simply prepend `un` to the form and eval it. add-hook! allows binding multiple fns to multiple hooks. And these are just some examples.
Also Doom does some tricks to make the startup blazing fast. Many times I have compared my config (that pulls over 350 packages) with someone else's vanilla. Doom demonstrably starts much faster.