916 Days of Emacs
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916 Days of Emacs
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Re: 916 Days of Emacs
#2> Poof I made my free-time disappear
- Ellis Kenyő, on being called an "elisp mage"
Haha, this is exactly what I fear if I tried to switch from Neovim to Emacs. I have a pretty bare-bones Emacs config that I started a while back, but haven't spent the time to really get it going.
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#3Cool post! I really don't want to know how much time I've spent configuring Emacs over the last 12 years :P The explosion of great Emacs Lisp packages over the last few years has absolutely made it difficult to avoid forever playing around with Emacs.
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#4> Poof I made my free-time disappear - Ellis Kenyő, on being called an "elisp mage" Haha, this is exactly what I fear if I tried to switch from Neovim to Emacs. I have a pretty bare-bones Emacs config that I started a while back, but haven't spent the time to really get it going.
Maybe Doom Emacs can win me back, I ended up preferring the vim emulation mode in Emacs, evil, over nvim but my dotfiles bitrotted over the long years
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#5I'd love to give it another try, but not convinced it's a good fit for me. Love it conceptually though.
The stumbling block I usually come to is wondering how to utilize these data sets on my smartphone in an efficient and effective manner.
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#6> As I said, I started from the point of zero experience with Lisp. I had a degree in software engineering, but I don’t feel like it has helped me in any direct sense. At most, it exposed me to different kinds and concepts of programming, but I am confident that it’s anything but a prerequisite, as also shown by the story of Protesilaos.
A reminder that back in the late 1970s, secretaries at MIT who knew nothing about programming were using Lisp to customize Multics Emacs to their liking and workflow -- and Emacs was far less convenient then than it is now!
The weird trick they used was, telling the secretaries they were just customizing their editor, not programming it!
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#7This website is a treasure trove of emacs config goodness. Bookmarked to come back to to explore switching from vim once again.
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#8I'd love to give it another try, but not convinced it's a good fit for me. Love it conceptually though. The stumbling block I usually come to is wondering how to utilize these data sets on my smartphone in an efficient and effective manner.
It does only work for a subset of org-mode functionality, but for TODOs and similar I find Orgzly on Android works great. I sync between my laptop and phone via Syncthing.
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#9I'd love to give it another try, but not convinced it's a good fit for me. Love it conceptually though. The stumbling block I usually come to is wondering how to utilize these data sets on my smartphone in an efficient and effective manner.
I find the iOS app BeOrg great for mobile access to my org mode inbox. It works well as not only a place to write quick notes but also to, say, "share to" links from Safari and other apps to create inbox entries as well to quickly capture URLs to view later.
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#10Cool post! I really don't want to know how much time I've spent configuring Emacs over the last 12 years :P The explosion of great Emacs Lisp packages over the last few years has absolutely made it difficult to avoid forever playing around with Emacs.
Have you tried any of the distributions? I have had sort of a semi-annual ritual of re-evaluating my emacs configuration. This last December I've tried Centaur out and while it's not perfect, it's not too bad. Definitely an interesting place to start from.