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Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs

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and http://emacs-fu.blogspot.ru/

and one more with screencasts: http://killring.org/hack-emacs/

Vim counterpart everyone? :-) http://vimcasts.org/

Being a fan of both, a lot of cool things from Vim to could be brought to Emacs workflow.

Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs

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My emacs automatically downloads and installs all my used packages on first startup on a fresh install. Literally all I have to do on a new box is clone my dotfiles and start emacs.

How do you achieve that?

https://bitbucket.org/zaphar/dotfiles/src/6ce04e6c7bbb03b21f... shows the current setup.

It's gotten more sophisticated over the years. I can probably clean it up some but it works so I haven't touched it :-)

Re: A new blog dedicated to Emacs

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Regarding sublime's API, can you split windows? Invoke subprocesses, and create REPLs? Genuinely curious, but I think you can do a lot more with Emacs' APIs, and modify core parts of the editor since most of it is written in ELisp and you can easily swap out functions.

Yes, you can do all of those things with sublime's API ( https://github.com/wuub/SublimeREPL , https://github.com/SublimeText/Origami ). Yes, emacs is more extensible, but not where it matters, really. I.e., I don't think you're going to see any cool feature made with elisp that can't be ported to sublime.

You can probably add every single feature in emacs to sublime. The 30 earth-years and many, many man-years of features, additions and smoothing of interactions that has gone into emacs, will however take quite some time to come to par with.

See e.g. tramp, org-mode, the vc-modes, gnus, magit, smart indenting etc.

martinced: you have been hell-banned for some, to me, completely opaque reason.

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> (vi seems to be on every *nix machine without fail). I tend to uninstall vi and install ed on my machines, it is just enough and about 90% smaller! :)

TRAMP & eshell would help you achieve 100% your local Emacs productivity on remote machines, and 100% smaller (you actually don't need to install anything on remote machine) :-)

Emacs is there, too, of course, ed is just for the guys who complain that they want vi :-)
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