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I'm fairly comfortable with VSCode and PyCharm, and recently started trying out Emacs for personal projects. I am pretty blown away by how pleasant the experien

by yen223 9y ago

I'm fairly comfortable with VSCode and PyCharm, and recently started trying out Emacs for personal projects. I am pretty blown away by how pleasant the experience was. It took a little bit of setup and a whole lot of learning, but I'm already reaping the rewards. Text editing is straight up faster, Org mode is really cool, and Magit is probably one of the best git clients I've used. Also, for a piece of software that came from the 70's (?), the Mac port of Emacs actually looks and feels pretty modern.

cup-of-tea 9y ago
The first time I ever opened emacs it didn't have anti-aliased fonts. I shuddered and closed it immediately. At the time I was looking to learn a serious text editor so I turned to vim because gvim actually did have nice fonts. I struggled with that for a little while before discovering that emacs had just improved on the font front. Emacs made so much more sense and I kind of fell in love with it. It does still have some quirks owing to its provenance but if you turn off the toolbars and choose a decent font it looks as good as anything else. Emacs is a lifelong journey. It's like playing a musical instrument. The possibilities are endless and you'll never reach the end but whatever stage you're at you'll still have fun using it.