How I am deeply integrating Emacs
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How I am deeply integrating Emacs
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#2> This is how world class athletes, musicians, artists, writers, and of course programmers take what is in their mind and translate it into reality.
> It is the ultimate sharpening of the axe before chopping the tree[1]
But if part of our axe sharpening is listening to music, reading email, catching up with your feeds and so on then perhaps we need to take a step back and ask if we're just invading our working thought-space with boondoggles.
[1] "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” - apparently Abraham Lincoln.
Re: How I am deeply integrating Emacs
#3> This is how world class athletes, musicians, artists, writers, and of course programmers take what is in their mind and translate it into reality. > It is the ultimate sharpening of the axe before chopping the tree[1] But if part of our axe sharpening is listening to music, reading email, catching up with your feeds and so on then perhaps we need to take a step back and ask if we're just invading our working though…
A good carpenter takes time to maintain and procure their tools. They still have a nice phone and might listen to music on their headphones while they’re working. A chef must keep their kitchen clean and well organised. Stocked with appropriate and some obscure tools. She must season her saucepan, sharpen her knives.
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#4The more I learn about emacs the more I feel we took the wrong fork on road in terms of the desktop metaphor decades ago.
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#5The more I learn about emacs the more I feel we took the wrong fork on road in terms of the desktop metaphor decades ago.
Emacs is great for people who are fine tinkering with their tools, and adjusting them to their needs and tastes. Emacs improves my quality of life quite a bit.
A lot of people hate that, they want a tool that has all relevant to their tasks front and center, all irrelevant invisible or nonexistent, and zero options to tinker with. It should just work, and preferably never change.
A middle ground are the browsers that just work out of the box, but can be heavily customized by extensions. MS Office is another example.
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#6I like eMacs but I feel the whole workflow is wrong. Buffers are a stacked tiled window manager inside your window manager. Your browser is a tabbed window manager, and many other applications are also window managers. I wish any sub buffer of any application was for all intents and purposes a dedicated window, so the WM can take care of the rest. Maybe it’s an adjustment that I could make in my workflow, but a global solution would have been nice. Too late now I guess though.
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#7Re EXWM and:
> Emacs is single threaded, therefore if anything in the system hangs, the whole system hangs
For development work I haven't found this to be an issue. Generally when coding I use very few X apps - pretty much just a web browser and maybe occasionally a PDF preview or docs browser. I don't think I've ever had a problem with the single-threaded behaviour blocking window management there. (And as an aside, while proper threading would be nice for things that actually should be concurrent - such as EXWM's duties as a window manager - I massively prefer emacs' synchronous processing of input over the JetBrains horror of pressing a key combination and then having to wait for some asynchronous UI behaviour to occur, with different outcomes depending on whether the next keypress occurs before or after the UI behaviour the first one triggered.)
For other, more GUI-focused activities I just run a separate (wayland) session.
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#8I like eMacs but I feel the whole workflow is wrong. Buffers are a stacked tiled window manager inside your window manager. Your browser is a tabbed window manager, and many other applications are also window managers. I wish any sub buffer of any application was for all intents and purposes a dedicated window, so the WM can take care of the rest. Maybe it’s an adjustment that I could make in my workflow, but a globa…
Doesn’t emacs slow down on really long files? I mean like 8,000 lines
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#9I like eMacs but I feel the whole workflow is wrong. Buffers are a stacked tiled window manager inside your window manager. Your browser is a tabbed window manager, and many other applications are also window managers. I wish any sub buffer of any application was for all intents and purposes a dedicated window, so the WM can take care of the rest. Maybe it’s an adjustment that I could make in my workflow, but a globa…
You can configure Emacs to open each buffer in a new frame — ie “window” and manage them with your window manager
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#10I like eMacs but I feel the whole workflow is wrong. Buffers are a stacked tiled window manager inside your window manager. Your browser is a tabbed window manager, and many other applications are also window managers. I wish any sub buffer of any application was for all intents and purposes a dedicated window, so the WM can take care of the rest. Maybe it’s an adjustment that I could make in my workflow, but a globa…
EXWM + Qutebrowser can work like that. The individual tabs of Qutebrowser become Emacs buffers.