Mad points for a terrific survey, esp the last question (no spoilers pls). LOL, my .emacs is so hacked-up, I had to check to make sure I had the correct answer!
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#72With some comments by Bozhidar Batsov ( https://github.com/bbatsov ) here: https://emacsredux.com/blog/2020/10/22/state-of-emacs-survey...
Reading in another comment that there was some hostility in the official mailing list had me worried to read his take. Instead, I got a wonderfully done perspective on it. Has done criticism, but all constructive. And lots of hope for seeing the results. I share his general ideas on this. I, also, don't really care for forcing standardisation. Nor do the defaults worry me. I'm convinced most of the "Emacs is hard" cr…
> I'm convinced most of the "Emacs is hard" crowd is just send fulfilling propaganda. So many think it is harder than alternatives because that is just what you say.
It's not too hard for people to learn, sure. But it's also a much steeper learning curve to get value from compared to IDEs or to VSCode. The latter are really quite nice out of the box.
And it's surely way easier for a novice to dig themselves into a hole they can't get out of with Emacs compared to VSCode.
I think spending some time to know your tools better is a good thing. But for those who don't have the time or interest, I wouldn't say Emacs is a great choice.
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#73They did not ask, but Swedish letter "å" is bloody useless on Finnish keyboard, so I have
(global-set-key (kbd "å") 'hippie-expand)Re: Emacs Survey
#74At the end of the survey there was a 'what is the default binding to find a file' question. I wonder how many people don't know the answer to that question. I didn't. For Doom Emacs the binding is SPC f d. I've been using Doom for two years and before that I was using Spacemacs. I have no idea what the default bindings are.
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#75It isn't possible to fill out the online form in EWW, so I'm not doing it.
You must be fun at parties
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#76They did not ask, but Swedish letter "å" is bloody useless on Finnish keyboard, so I have (global-set-key (kbd "å") 'hippie-expand)
hippie-expand is so blessed. It surprises me that all other text editors/IDE's seem to have converged on the distracting pop-up thing
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#77At the end of the survey there was a 'what is the default binding to find a file' question. I wonder how many people don't know the answer to that question. I didn't. For Doom Emacs the binding is SPC f d. I've been using Doom for two years and before that I was using Spacemacs. I have no idea what the default bindings are.
This was definitely a bit weird for what seems like a question that was probably supposed to filter out malicious responses? I happen to still use the default binding but I could easily see myself forgetting if I happened to be an evil-mode person.
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#79At the end of the survey there was a 'what is the default binding to find a file' question. I wonder how many people don't know the answer to that question. I didn't. For Doom Emacs the binding is SPC f d. I've been using Doom for two years and before that I was using Spacemacs. I have no idea what the default bindings are.
i've been using space p f in doom. space f d is find directory not file. space f f is find file
no clue what the default is.
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#80They did not ask, but Swedish letter "å" is bloody useless on Finnish keyboard, so I have (global-set-key (kbd "å") 'hippie-expand)
This is also phonetic choice as "åååå" is an expression of amazement and puzzlement.