Use GNU Emacs

Post by olivertaylor » Fri, Mar 03, 2023, 7:28 PM UTC

sn41 wrote: post #45

OK. Here's a usecase where I found emacs to be wonderful. I had to email the grades, together with totals, and class averages to many students in a class. I tried fiddling with Excel and Google spreadsheets and scripted mail merges. Then I realized I could do it emacs. Export the gradesheet into csv, and convert to an org table. Carefully record a macro where you copy paste the name of the student the mark columns in…

    (defun compose-mail-macos (&optional to subject body)
      "Compose a message using macOS's default mail program."
      (interactive)
      (start-process "Open Mail Message" nil "open"
                     (concat "mailto:"
                             (when to to) "?"
                             (when subject (concat "&subject=" (url-hexify-string subject)))
                             (when body (concat "&body=" (url-hexify-string body))))))
    
    (defun compose-mail-macos-multiple (list subject body)
      "ADDRESSES should be a list of email addresses in the form of:
    (setq mail-list '(\"Mail 1 \"
                      \"Mail 2 \"
                      \"Mail 3 \"))"
      (while list
        (let ((to (car list)))
          (compose-mail-macos to subject body)
          (setq list (cdr list)))))

Post by saeranv » Fri, Mar 03, 2023, 7:42 PM UTC

mtzet wrote: post #88

forty wrote: post #71

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I switched from VSCode to Doom Emacs with very little of my own customization (doing TS, Scala, Rust mostly) a few years ago. There is not one thing of VSCode that I miss, and I enjoy some of the most powerful features like wgrep & all, and a great vim emulation layer (the one I had in VSCode sucked).

I agree. Emacs out-of-the-box is terrible, but my Doom Emacs config is all 50 lines of code. For that I get: - IDE-like features via LSP - The best git porcelain out there: magit. Even when I'm not using emacs, I come back to magit for code-browsing (recursive blame) and staging hunks. - Emacs/vim's fantastic buffer/window concept, where open files are not owned by their windows. I miss this whenever I use anything e…

Post by kilgnad » Fri, Mar 03, 2023, 7:51 PM UTC

teddyh wrote: post #245

kilgnad wrote: post #208

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We likely have lost something. It's like global warming. Everybody talks about it as if they care, but if you still drive a car, do you actually care? No. Not enough to stop contributing to global warming. It's the same thing with free software. I care, but not enough to stop me from using the easiest thing out there to use regardless of whether or not it's free.

Let’s not exaggerate; many people do care enough to have it affect their behavior. If there’s something you “care” about, but this does not affect any decisions you make in any way, do you actually care about it?

Post by _a_a_a_ » Fri, Mar 03, 2023, 7:56 PM UTC

saeranv wrote: post #253

mtzet wrote: post #88

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I agree. Emacs out-of-the-box is terrible, but my Doom Emacs config is all 50 lines of code. For that I get: - IDE-like features via LSP - The best git porcelain out there: magit. Even when I'm not using emacs, I come back to magit for code-browsing (recursive blame) and staging hunks. - Emacs/vim's fantastic buffer/window concept, where open files are not owned by their windows. I miss this whenever I use anything e…

> - Emacs/vim's fantastic buffer/window concept, where open files are not owned by their windows. I miss this whenever I use anything else. Why is this useful? I basically treat my nvim buffers like windows. What am I missing?

Post by charcircuit » Fri, Mar 03, 2023, 9:14 PM UTC

medo-bear wrote: post #153

charcircuit wrote: post #129

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>since the community seems perfectly content being niche. This is just admitting defeat. There is no reason Emacs couldn't be the number one editor right now. GNU projects in general all tend to fail to innovate and seem to ignore the last couple of decades of learnings.

seems like you have a bit of an agenda. are you sour about something ? for me emacs is probably the best piece of software i ever used and i use my hardware for everything :|