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"Some of you might be thinking, just use vim or emacs and you don't have to worry about using Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right because there are better ways of navigati

"Some of you might be thinking, just use vim or emacs and you don't have to worry about using Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right because there are better ways of navigation. But you are not always in vim or emacs, sometimes you are in a browser or an IDE." Uh, no. I'm pretty much always in Emacs. Except when I'm posting a comment on HN :)

nemoniac 9y ago
And even then you could be in emacs: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Edit_with_Emacs https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Edit_with_Emacs or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/
- dangom 9y ago
  Not to be forgotten: https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/firemacs/ https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/firemacs/ Because even for things that are not text, there is no reason not to stick to Emacs.
  - jwilk 9y ago
    Non-Dutch link: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/firemacs/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/firemacs/
DanHulton 9y ago
What about when you're in shell?
- Spivak 9y ago
  There is never a reason to leave Emacs. M-x eshell M-x term
  - jacobsenscott 9y ago
    I wish. Every now and then I try and use emacs term. It is slow, doesn't handle screen resizes well, and God forbid you try and use tmux within emacs term. You'll be sorry.
    - Spivak 9y ago
      I know it's not the same, but you're supposed to use multi-term to manage multiple terminal buffers.
    - jackewiehose 9y ago
      I prefer M-x shell - simple bash syntax and full emacs editing capabilities. But it's also painfully slow. Typing ls -l in the wrong directory and I'm tempted to kill the buffer. On the other hand, this encourages me to use M-x dired which is way better anyway.
- jackewiehose 9y ago
  bash has emacs keybindings by default
chainsaw10 9y ago
Also, somewhere in GNOME settings, there's a setting to enable "emacs mode", which lets you use ^a, ^e, ^k, ^y in normal textboxes.

nemoniac 9y ago

And even then you could be in emacs: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Edit_with_Emacs https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Edit_with_Emacs or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/

dangom 9y ago
Not to be forgotten: https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/firemacs/ https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/firemacs/ Because even for things that are not text, there is no reason not to stick to Emacs.
- jwilk 9y ago
  Non-Dutch link: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/firemacs/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/firemacs/

DanHulton 9y ago

What about when you're in shell?

Spivak 9y ago
There is never a reason to leave Emacs. M-x eshell M-x term
- jacobsenscott 9y ago
  I wish. Every now and then I try and use emacs term. It is slow, doesn't handle screen resizes well, and God forbid you try and use tmux within emacs term. You'll be sorry.
  - Spivak 9y ago
    I know it's not the same, but you're supposed to use multi-term to manage multiple terminal buffers.
  - jackewiehose 9y ago
    I prefer M-x shell - simple bash syntax and full emacs editing capabilities. But it's also painfully slow. Typing ls -l in the wrong directory and I'm tempted to kill the buffer. On the other hand, this encourages me to use M-x dired which is way better anyway.
jackewiehose 9y ago
bash has emacs keybindings by default

chainsaw10 9y ago

Also, somewhere in GNOME settings, there's a setting to enable "emacs mode", which lets you use ^a, ^e, ^k, ^y in normal textboxes.