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Once, I used Emacs. All I did with it was play in the land of elisp. I never got any real work done. Then, a passionate friend converted me to Vim. I only ever

Once, I used Emacs. All I did with it was play in the land of elisp. I never got any real work done. Then, a passionate friend converted me to Vim. I only ever used it to do battle with my .vimrc. I never got any real work done. Now, I use Atom. Click a button, install a feature. No more distractions. I wish it were faster though; I can never get any real work done.

agumonkey 11y ago
pen and paper my friend. punched cards even.
taeric 11y ago
This doesn't make sense. You used to be someone easily distracted by yak shaving, is what it reads like. Installing features in Emacs is not exactly tough, either. I do think you can get distracted by the sea of things you can install. Probably no different from the new toys in the realm.
- spion 11y ago
  Makes sense to me. I love both emacs and vim, but I agree there are too many yaks to be shaved to get them in a usable state.
  - taeric 11y ago
    I question the lack of shaving in the next application. Seems there is always something that could have been done a different way.
noelsusman 11y ago
The features just aren't there for me in Atom. I have a feeling they are if you're a web developer, but us non webdevs are left out in the cold (at least for now). Compare LaTeX and R in Atom to AUCTeX and ESS in Emacs and it's like night and day. Every time I switch to Atom I get frustrated within a day due to lack of features for the things I use.
my_coworker 11y ago
You sound like my coworker. Kevin? Is that you?
terminalcommand 11y ago
You might be interested in this amazing tutorial. It shows how to configure emacs to download packages from melpa. It helped me a great deal, and since then I never looked back. Hope we can convert you to the church of emacs :P https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxj9UAX4Em-IiOfvF2Qs742LxEK4owSkr https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxj9UAX4Em-IiOfvF2Qs7...
- mrighele 11y ago
  I use an approach similar to this [1] to automatically install missing packages on startup. This means that when I move to a new machine I just have to clone the repo with my emacs configuration to have everything ready, settings _and_ extra packages. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10092322/how-to-automatically-install-emacs-packages-by-specifying-a-list-of-package-name#10095853 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10092322/how-to-automatic...
easytiger 11y ago
How does atom work in a ptty?
- rekado 11y ago
  Not everybody needs that. Even I as a sysadmin just use TRAMP from within my graphical Emacs to edit remote files and don't open Emacs in an SSH session over a terminal emulator.
  - easytiger 11y ago
    > Not everybody needs that. Didn't suggest they did. But I do.

agumonkey 11y ago

pen and paper my friend. punched cards even.

taeric 11y ago

This doesn't make sense. You used to be someone easily distracted by yak shaving, is what it reads like. Installing features in Emacs is not exactly tough, either. I do think you can get distracted by the sea of things you can install. Probably no different from the new toys in the realm.

spion 11y ago
Makes sense to me. I love both emacs and vim, but I agree there are too many yaks to be shaved to get them in a usable state.
- taeric 11y ago
  I question the lack of shaving in the next application. Seems there is always something that could have been done a different way.

noelsusman 11y ago

The features just aren't there for me in Atom. I have a feeling they are if you're a web developer, but us non webdevs are left out in the cold (at least for now). Compare LaTeX and R in Atom to AUCTeX and ESS in Emacs and it's like night and day. Every time I switch to Atom I get frustrated within a day due to lack of features for the things I use.

my_coworker 11y ago

You sound like my coworker. Kevin? Is that you?

terminalcommand 11y ago

You might be interested in this amazing tutorial. It shows how to configure emacs to download packages from melpa. It helped me a great deal, and since then I never looked back. Hope we can convert you to the church of emacs :P https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxj9UAX4Em-IiOfvF2Qs742LxEK4owSkr https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxj9UAX4Em-IiOfvF2Qs7...

mrighele 11y ago
I use an approach similar to this [1] to automatically install missing packages on startup. This means that when I move to a new machine I just have to clone the repo with my emacs configuration to have everything ready, settings _and_ extra packages. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10092322/how-to-automatically-install-emacs-packages-by-specifying-a-list-of-package-name#10095853 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10092322/how-to-automatic...

easytiger 11y ago

How does atom work in a ptty?

rekado 11y ago
Not everybody needs that. Even I as a sysadmin just use TRAMP from within my graphical Emacs to edit remote files and don't open Emacs in an SSH session over a terminal emulator.
- easytiger 11y ago
  > Not everybody needs that. Didn't suggest they did. But I do.