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Interesting, I tend to recommend people who want to use a UI tool to first learn how to use git from the CLI because many times UI tools are leaky abstraction a
by K0nserv 10y ago
Interesting, I tend to recommend people who want to use a UI tool to first learn how to use git from the CLI because many times UI tools are leaky abstraction and sometimes they are flat out wrong and rename concepts. This sounds like it'd be perfect if it wasn't for the emacs aspect of it.
- zeveb 10y ago> This sounds like it'd be perfect if it wasn't for the emacs aspect of it. If you prefer vi you can always use spacemacs … If you prefer Atom or SublimeText, well then: come over to the light side of the Force grin
- K0nserv 10y agoIt's more that the people who usually want to use a UI tool are already very UI oriented, so they'll not use emacs or vim. Probably PyCharm, Visual Studio or some other heavy IDE.
- atemerev 10y agoSpacemacs is slow, clunky and always messed up (I tried it 6 months ago and it conflicted with Ergoemacs pretty badly). Also, _both_ vim and Emacs are horrible UI. Vi was designed for slow terminals and a particular keyboard with no arrows; ghjk for navigation is terrible, always pressing the wrong key. Emacs was designed (C-w) evolved from macros for Space Cadet keyboard with lots of modifier keys. How these two archeological curiosities are still praised for being good modern text editors, escapes my mind. (I use both vim and Emacs as I enjoy working in terminal, and I hate them both. Sadly, there is no good text editor like Sublime or Atom for console).
- avindroth 10y agoI have been using spacemacs and I can't really go back. Some parts are clunky, but it feels like I am riding a battle cruiser. I can literally do anything. I have gone on the editor search for a while, and now I have settled. Can't be more happy! The editors I might switch to are Acme, LightTable, or Lamdu, but probably unlikely.