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It's not you. The defaults are pretty hostile, in my opinion. It took me three attempts over many years to fall in love with Emacs. I'm now using Emacs for e
by rekado 8y ago
It's not you. The defaults are pretty hostile, in my opinion. It took me three attempts over many years to fall in love with Emacs.
I'm now using Emacs for everything: shell, git, email, file browser, window manager, IRC, slack, as a pdf reader, ... oh, and to edit text files.
My advice is to keep using it. When you notice that something is really weird, run `M-x package-list-packages` to see if someone has already written a package to change the weird behaviour. Ask questions on emacs.stackexchange.com, but also ask Emacs; use C-h to learn about why things are the way they are.
If you don't understand why people love Emacs, consider reading this:
https://elephly.net/posts/2016-02-14-ilovefs-emacs.html
Give it a try some time again. Or not.
- jordigh 8y ago> The defaults are pretty hostile, in my opinion. They're mostly old. So I guess they might be hostile to the young. I actually dislike some of the newer things like transient-mark-mode. I don't want all of that highlighting just because I have a selection region, and was quick to disable it when they enabled it to make it more "modern": http://inversethought.com/hg/dotemacs/file/f029c55c6221/dotemacs.el#l77 http://inversethought.com/hg/dotemacs/file/f029c55c6221/dote...
- h1d 8y agoBeing young isn't the reason for feeling it hostile. Old ones just got used to it when it was the best they had back then. I've been using vim for 15 years or something but its default is insanely hostile that the default hotkeys aren't even funny. You'd even feel wet that you can save a file with just 2 keys under Windows in Notepad compared to 4 keys that's not exactly intuitive until your muscle remembers it or modify it to something sane. (I use a single 'space' under command mode to save.)