Emacs My Way
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Emacs My Way
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#2"I had to spend around two full years memorizing key chords"
Yet another user who thinks emacs is about the key cords. It's not, it's about extensibility. I changed most of the default key bindings, because they were inconvenient.
Remember: Emacs should adapt to you, not the other way around. That's what Emacs is about.
Some people even use VIM bindings in Emacs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz_0i27wYbg
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#4"go-mode, because the cool guys program in Go now, don’t they?"
Way too opinionated for my tastes, I'll stick to using https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude with a few custom settings.
Optional packages should be the way to go for these configuration bundles.
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#5I like the idea of emacs... Every time I read a list of plugins like this I get put off by it though. I want an editor that does editing well and helps me edit source code faster. These lists, for the most part, show how emacs has git integration that's better than the command line(not too hard a task), or rvm switching(how often is this really needed? Set it once in the .ruby-version file and be done with it), or some other external program that can be brought into emacs and have marginal utility.
Maybe I am just not getting it and this is a sincere query for the emacs people out there to show me the way. (Vim guy that wouldn't mind switching but hasn't seen a compelling case for it other than the fact that emacs lisp is the bees knees.)
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#6After using vim for a while by recommendation of acquaintances, I decided to give Emacs a try on Windows and GNU/Linux. I've found that it's quite enjoyable, even though I'm too lazy to customize it extensively. It has a lot of nice things already built-in. I would say it's the best FOSS text editor on Windows, at least.
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#7"I had to spend around two full years memorizing key chords" Yet another user who thinks emacs is about the key cords. It's not, it's about extensibility. I changed most of the default key bindings, because they were inconvenient. Remember: Emacs should adapt to you, not the other way around. That's what Emacs is about. Some people even use VIM bindings in Emacs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz_0i27wYbg
Yes, yes, yes! I came here to write exactly this: what is the point of having infinitely configurable and extensible editor if you don't configure it and extend it to your liking?
The very first thing I did after switching to Emacs was to rebind most frequently used keys to something sane. The next thing was to make the functions themselves sane - IIRC the first command I wrote was "comment-or-uncomment-region-or-line".
My emacs config is about 4k lines of my own code at this point, very little of which implements anything by itself. It's full of customize-options, hooks and defadvices, eval-when-loads and similar things, which make Emacs into my editor. If I had to learn some defaults I couldn't change I would just use some IDE or another editor.
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#8I like the idea of emacs... Every time I read a list of plugins like this I get put off by it though. I want an editor that does editing well and helps me edit source code faster. These lists, for the most part, show how emacs has git integration that's better than the command line(not too hard a task), or rvm switching(how often is this really needed? Set it once in the .ruby-version file and be done with it), or so…
Well, I switched to Emacs from Vim exactly because of ELisp. Or rather because of Vimscript: I thought that Lisp or whatever, even Forth would be better than Vimscript :)
After 3 or so years of using Vim heavily I started hit the limit of what can be done with defaults, simple options adjustions and even plugins. I honestly tried to use Vimscript, but I couldn't bring myself to do this for real. I knew some Scheme then, so I wasn't afraid of Lisps. I switched and I immediately started implementing things I wished I had implemented months earlier in Vim. My Vim config was ~700 loc and it had only a few custom commands defined in it after 3 years. As I mentioned in another comment my emacs config is ~4k loc now and defines a multitude of advices, hooks and plain commands after half a year. It grows almost every day and what's most important is that coding to Emacs APIs in ELisp gives me much more pleasure than coding in Vimscript.
Lastly, modality - somehow I'm not missing it. It's not that I've seen the light and now think that modal editors are an abomination, but I came to appreciate modeless-by-default model of editing. Emacs ofers many ways to enter modal mode, so when I felt that modal interface would be better for something I just coded it so it's modal.
In short - if you're a happy Vim user who doesn't feel the need to write your own Vimscript (or you're happy with Vimscript!) then I see no reason to switch (maybe org-mode or something, but that's a very specific case). But if you thought at some point that you'd like to code up something in your editor but didn't because it was too much of a PITA then give Emacs a try.
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#9I like the idea of emacs... Every time I read a list of plugins like this I get put off by it though. I want an editor that does editing well and helps me edit source code faster. These lists, for the most part, show how emacs has git integration that's better than the command line(not too hard a task), or rvm switching(how often is this really needed? Set it once in the .ruby-version file and be done with it), or so…
Well, I switched to Emacs from Vim exactly because of ELisp. Or rather because of Vimscript: I thought that Lisp or whatever, even Forth would be better than Vimscript :) After 3 or so years of using Vim heavily I started hit the limit of what can be done with defaults, simple options adjustions and even plugins. I honestly tried to use Vimscript, but I couldn't bring myself to do this for real. I knew some Scheme th…
Have you tried the evil mode or whatever vim emulator suits your fancy?
Is your config out there in the wild?
Re: Emacs My Way
#10I like the idea of emacs... Every time I read a list of plugins like this I get put off by it though. I want an editor that does editing well and helps me edit source code faster. These lists, for the most part, show how emacs has git integration that's better than the command line(not too hard a task), or rvm switching(how often is this really needed? Set it once in the .ruby-version file and be done with it), or so…
Well, I switched to Emacs from Vim exactly because of ELisp. Or rather because of Vimscript: I thought that Lisp or whatever, even Forth would be better than Vimscript :) After 3 or so years of using Vim heavily I started hit the limit of what can be done with defaults, simple options adjustions and even plugins. I honestly tried to use Vimscript, but I couldn't bring myself to do this for real. I knew some Scheme th…
I'm curious if there is an efficient way to transition from VIm to Emacs. I've wanted to for a while now but dread the lost productivity from making the transition.