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I have also tried to live with Emacs for about a year. In most respects it is absolutely great, inline LaTeX rendering, org-mode is like having Jupyter in your
by danieldk 9y ago
I have also tried to live with Emacs for about a year. In most respects it is absolutely great, inline LaTeX rendering, org-mode is like having Jupyter in your text editor (and a lot more), Magit is hands-down the best Git porcelain.
However, I have found that both with Spacemacs and vanilla Emacs + packages I basically end up with a Rube Goldberg machine where it is hard to see how things work and fit together. Combined with the tendency of packages to break very often, I frequently had the feeling that the ground was crumbling under my feet.
I am mostly back to vim now for editing (+ Things for todos). For presentations and text I use one of {LaTeX, pandoc Markdown, Deckset.app Markdown}.
- confounded 9y agoPackages breaking is a real problem. I’ve found that explicitly versioning them (eg comitting their source) has made this much less of a problem.
- ethelward 9y agoYou may be interested by the straight.el package manager. https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el
- confounded 9y agoThank you!
- bocklund 9y agoI forgot about Magic. I almost want to have emacs open in parallel just to have my projects open in Magit. You never have to tweak it and it’s more effective than anything else.
- cat199 9y ago> org-mode is like having Jupyter in your text editor (and a lot more) more like: jupyter is like having emacs in your browser (but a lot less)