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It amazes me that developers pick closed source Jetbrains and Microsoft spyware for the program they rely on to make a living when Emacs and Vim/Neovim get better by leaps and bounds every year. Emacs has packages that VSCode can only dream of having and with Emacs distributions or really just lsp-mode you can have a full fledged IDE with 0 fiddling. I recently did some digging into the editor usage of noteworthy pro…
I'm not saying that yours is necessarily the case, of course I don't know, but I feel like lots of people that hold opinions like yours greatly underestimate the amount of functionality that comes with something like a Jetbrains IDE. It's not even about the editor itself, nor the graphical or UX stuff. It's the crazy level of introspection and of understanding your code those IDEs bring. My daily experience is just i…
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I'm going to assume this isn't trolling and if it is, you fooled me. I've use Vim professionally, as well as VSCode and Jetbrains IDEs and dabbled in Emacs - the idea that one can replicate what IntelliJ does for Java for instance in any other IDE or text editor is to me, nonsensical. The amount of configuration it would require in vim/neovim/vscode to replicate the refactoring ability of IntelliJ alone would take yo…
Emacs distributions are built for people who want zero fiddling. Fiddling in of itself is not bad. Fiddling is how you learn, and this is a profession that requires constant learning and tinkering. Most of features of a modern IDE are unnecessary or are actively harmful to developing good code. Thinking, taking your time, writing as little code as possible, and organizing a project so it can be easily understood and…
It is also worth noting that I have never had an issue jumping from vim to VSCode (or vice-versa) on the same project. Neither of the two need any extra metadata or configuration. They just work, and I'll choose whichever tool makes sense for whatever I'm doing at the moment. As, frankly, I think everyone should. This fixation over one specific type of tool over another is unnecessary: go with whatever you are most productive with.
I was an Emacs user back in my software writing days, but I thought I had left it behind when I became a lawyer. Over the past month or two however I’ve moved more and more of my workflow over to Emacs. I started with using Org Mode and PDF tools for note taking and reviewing PDFs and task management: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30492373 . More recently I switched my email over to mu4e: https://www.emacswiki…
I was an Emacs user back in my software writing days, but I thought I had left it behind when I became a lawyer. Over the past month or two however I’ve moved more and more of my workflow over to Emacs. I started with using Org Mode and PDF tools for note taking and reviewing PDFs and task management: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30492373 . More recently I switched my email over to mu4e: https://www.emacswiki…
You may want to try using DavMail [1] for interfacing with Outlook. It is a reverse-proxy for email, so it talks to Outlook, and then mu4e can talk to DavMail directly. [1] http://davmail.sourceforge.net/
I was an Emacs user back in my software writing days, but I thought I had left it behind when I became a lawyer. Over the past month or two however I’ve moved more and more of my workflow over to Emacs. I started with using Org Mode and PDF tools for note taking and reviewing PDFs and task management: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30492373 . More recently I switched my email over to mu4e: https://www.emacswiki…
Are you using viper or evil-mode often (or some other thing which gives emacs vi bindings, I think there are a couple)? Because navigating text with emacs gives me the emacs pinky, I'm wondering how folks deal with that. Transposed cpslck with ctrl?
I have been testing Emacs 28 for a few weeks now, as it was reported to improve performance on LSP integration (which was sometimes sluggish for me with rust). I have to say I wasn't disappointed. It's now comparatively blazingly fast. I hugely recommend to give it a try if you work in emacs with LSP. Since my distro had not packaged it yet, I installed it from guix instead (package `emacs-next`). It worked like a ch…
I tried installing a lsp package at some point, but I couldn't figure out if it was actually doing anything over and above the language major modes. Not sure if it was actually doing anything at all actually.
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I'm not saying that yours is necessarily the case, of course I don't know, but I feel like lots of people that hold opinions like yours greatly underestimate the amount of functionality that comes with something like a Jetbrains IDE. It's not even about the editor itself, nor the graphical or UX stuff. It's the crazy level of introspection and of understanding your code those IDEs bring. My daily experience is just i…
I have used Jetbrains IDEA and Clion extensively to understand the other side. An IDEs heavy introspection isn’t necessary, and perhaps actively harmful towards writing and reading code. It’s rigid policy over tools like git is certainly actively harmful. If it takes an IDE to write your code, then it will likely take an IDE to read your code. They are tools that allow you to take shortcuts were you shouldn’t, and ro…
However what I do think is important is that every project should not actively discriminate against any of the alternative tools, in every project I manage I encourage every programmer to use the editor/IDE, shell or operating system they are most conformable with (but they need of course to manage their environment themselves and deliver the code in time).
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As someone who uses Emacs for (almost) all my editing needs and has done for about 17 years I just don’t understand how you can have these beliefs. LSP-mode is great and now with things like Spacemacs and Doom Emacs getting setup and getting things reasonably configured is a lot easier. But still! VSCode is pretty cool and is easy to use right out of the box. It does some things with ease that would be very hard with…
It amazes me there are Emacs users that don’t understand the importance of free software. You’re using the editor devised by the free software foundation, but you only want to talk about convenience. Convenience is not an excuse to switch to corporate made closed source spyware.
But you yourself bought up convenience in your original comment. If your argument is a purely moral one then no need to specify how little fiddling is required to get LSP working. But I do think if your only argument is yelling at people about it being immoral to use VSCode you ain't going to get far. Why not talk about the cool things Emacs has while acknowledging the things it still has that could be improved?
VSCode is open source by the way, MIT not GPL but you can go compile it yourself (or use VSCodium).
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Just waiting for my distro to update Emacs.
It's actually fairly easy to build yourself. No really esoteric dependencies, and you can install it to $HOME
e.g. I compiled Emacs to run on Redhat Linux. Since I wanted to compile it with --with-native-compilation flag, I had to install Redhat's developer tools to get libgccjit. These tools are installed in /opt/rh/devtoolset-10/root. An enable script is provided which modifies the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
After compilation, I was able to launch Emacs from my bash terminal, but only after running the enable script (i.e. sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the correct directory). In a fresh terminal or after logging out and logging back in, launching Emacs gives the error:
emacs: error while loading shared libraries: libgccjit.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Moreover, launching from application menu fails. I was able to get it to launch by modifying the binaries rpath, but then emacs gave lots of libgccjit.so errors afterword, when trying to lazy compile different internal applications: error invoking gcc driver.
I also tried compiling on Mac, but found myself experiencing a variety of issues that I didn't want to spend time thinking about. So I went with someone else's pre-built binaries.