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I'm a long time vim user, but after a colleague showed me org-mode I installed emacs (with spacemacs). Currently I only use it to edit org files, but it feels

I'm a long time vim user, but after a colleague showed me org-mode I installed emacs (with spacemacs). Currently I only use it to edit org files, but it feels like there is a whole ecosystem waiting to be explored.

icen 9y ago
You should check out magit, as well.
- brudgers 9y ago
  And elisp.
  - _e 9y ago
    and pacmacs [0] [0] https://github.com/codingteam/pacmacs.el https://github.com/codingteam/pacmacs.el
cle 9y ago
Magit, ESS, SLIME, Cider, Gnus/mu4e, dired... There are some fundamentals that make it relatively easy to pick up anything: * Help system (nearly everything is self-documenting) * Customization * ELisp basics (write some helper functions in your .emacs) * Debugging (Edebug, just do C-u C-M-x to instrument a fn and step through it next time it's called) I've been a long-time Emacs user, and the "aha" moment happened when I realized that Emacs really boils down to three things: 1) a text editor 2) mechanisms to interact with your system (e.g. subprocesses) and 3) interactive and dynamically programmable runtime. Once you learn the fundamentals of those three things, the sky's the limit...