From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015)
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From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015)
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Re: From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015)
#2Just for fun, here are some of the larger past threads. Others?
After over a decade of Vim, I’m hooked on Emacs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16551796 - March 2018 (161 comments)
A pragmatic decision on GNU Emacs versus Vim for programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13590944 - Feb 2017 (59 comments)
Why I switched from Vim to Emacs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13130775 - Dec 2016 (101 comments)
From Vim to Emacs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8367384 - Sept 2014 (116 comments)
Emacs and Vim - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8084359 - July 2014 (275 comments)
Vi and Vim vs. Emacs Shootout and Deal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3205828 - Nov 2011 (52 comments)
Some thoughts on Emacs and Vim - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2229040 - Feb 2011 (40 comments)
How a Vim user converts to Emacs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2036586 - Dec 2010 (66 comments)
On vim vs emacs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1374916 - May 2010 (28 comments)
Debian's Vim maintainer switches to Emacs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341492 - Oct 2008 (32 comments)
Re: From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015)
#3> If, like me, you’re curious enough to give Emacs a try...
So curiosity rather than conversion. Six year later is he still using Emacs? Went back to Vim? Moved on to something else?
I have enough years invested in muscle memory of Vim itself and various plugins that what curiosity I have about Emacs is well controlled. I doubt I have runway left to get to the same productivity in another editor.
Re: From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015)
#4"Finally, install evil-mode, the Vim emulation package for Emacs"
Anyone use this regularly? Does it kill off some of the upside of emacs?
Re: From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015)
#5> If, like me, you’re curious enough to give Emacs a try... So curiosity rather than conversion. Six year later is he still using Emacs? Went back to Vim? Moved on to something else? I have enough years invested in muscle memory of Vim itself and various plugins that what curiosity I have about Emacs is well controlled. I doubt I have runway left to get to the same productivity in another editor.
An interesting path is to go from regular emacs to emacs with vim bindings, which is what I did, also in around 14 days. Its painful, but good for you brain. And you get the best of both worlds, or so I like to think.
Re: From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015)
#6"Finally, install evil-mode, the Vim emulation package for Emacs" Anyone use this regularly? Does it kill off some of the upside of emacs?
I don't use evil mode, but I don't see how it could kill any of the upside of Emacs, which has very little to do with keybindings.
Re: From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015)
#7I went from vim to emacs for development in go and python. I Went with doom emacs, which is a configuration distribution already prebuilt which is friendly to vimm users (ie, evil mode). It was rough at first, required writing lots of cheat sheets and also changing workflows a little. I feel much more productive in emacs than vim. IMHO, its more straightforward to google "How to do X in emacs" than "how to do X in vim" and actually end up with a productive configuration change.
Re: From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015)
#8I’m curious to hear from folks who have switched between the two, and have lasted for more than a year on both. If you’ve learned more than the basics and both became muscle memory, which did you end up sticking to?
(Vim user for 23 years, Emacs user of none... but interested because of Lisp)
Re: From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015)
#9> If, like me, you’re curious enough to give Emacs a try... So curiosity rather than conversion. Six year later is he still using Emacs? Went back to Vim? Moved on to something else? I have enough years invested in muscle memory of Vim itself and various plugins that what curiosity I have about Emacs is well controlled. I doubt I have runway left to get to the same productivity in another editor.
Well the author used Evil mode which is vi emulation for emacs and quite popular. Their last post that was obviously about emacs was late 2019 but they don’t blog much. So I’d guess they still use emacs
Re: From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015)
#10> If, like me, you’re curious enough to give Emacs a try... So curiosity rather than conversion. Six year later is he still using Emacs? Went back to Vim? Moved on to something else? I have enough years invested in muscle memory of Vim itself and various plugins that what curiosity I have about Emacs is well controlled. I doubt I have runway left to get to the same productivity in another editor.
This is a great point. Personally, the only reason I would want to switch to Emacs is Org mode but the muscle memory for custom Vim and Tmux keymaps is hard to give up.