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I have been using GNU Emacs since the late 1980s. It has been my life's editor, so to speak. At 59 1/2, it seems unlikely that I will ever switch to another editor. It's served me well. I am grateful to the hackers that created it.
I wonder what kind of programs get to follow you for so many decades.
I wish I spent time learning how to use Emacs in the past to a degree where customizing my installation was faster than learning something else. As I stand now, it seems really hard to justify to invest time into it when the benefits over using something very easy to work with (like JetBrains IDEs for Java or VS Code for Python) sound marginal. I know experts can fly around in it and it looks amazing. Having a single…
And before the VSCode fanboys downvote me, the other day my colleague's VSCode instance was using more than 200GB of virtual memory. When I typed on his editor it was noticeably laggy. He told me it was normal. He had five files open. My emacs had been running for two weeks at that point and had about 200 files, 5 shells, 2 ssh sessions and 1 IRC client going on.
Seriously, guys. The reason why you like VSCode is the same reason we like emacs. Come and use the real thing.
What’s a good resource for learning emacs for someone who’s been using vim for more than 20 years?
spacemacs! I was a long-time vim+tmux diehard and now i'm all about spacemacs. Org-mode and Magit are just too good to live without. There were a few hurdles when switching, mainly around auto-indent differences that were harder to configure with emacs. (dtrt-indent ftw, thank god for that). Also the regexes are different and not as good (i don't think emacs regexes do negative lookahead etc...) so some of the advanc…
I wish I spent time learning how to use Emacs in the past to a degree where customizing my installation was faster than learning something else. As I stand now, it seems really hard to justify to invest time into it when the benefits over using something very easy to work with (like JetBrains IDEs for Java or VS Code for Python) sound marginal. I know experts can fly around in it and it looks amazing. Having a single…
I had been away from emacs for almost 10 years since I stopped being a pro programmer. And even back then I wasn't really an emacs power-user. I just knew enough to be productive and slightly dangerous. Recently, I reached my last nerve with MS Word and buckled down to ditch Word for emacs. Today I do just about all my writing in emacs (markdown) and then generate word docx using pandoc at the end. Now, I use emacs a…
Here's the NEWS file for the curious: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=e...
I have yet to come across anything that compares, and I definitely prefer having Lisp built in to Python bolted on to the side.
Emacs used to be considered quite slow, but compared to the latest offerings its pretty snappy.
Never got it to work well in Windows, but that's not an issue for me anymore.
Is the multi threaded implementation, being talked about for some time part of this release? Sometimes the single threaded nature of emacs causes problems while running complex setups like cider, nrepl etc.
- Guile Emacs does not seem very alive: http://git.hcoop.net/?p=bpt/emacs.git
- Remacs, a Rust port, seems to be more alive: https://github.com/remacs/remacs Does not look usable as a daily driver, though.
I sometimes wish that Xi editor adopted an elisp port as one of the scripting engines. Not very likely, though; a suitable port does not exist in the first place so far.