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every now and then i change things up and explore the field. textmate -> sublime -> vim -> emacs -> idea -> (now) vscode. i really want to like emacs, i think

every now and then i change things up and explore the field. textmate -> sublime -> vim -> emacs -> idea -> (now) vscode. i really want to like emacs, i think it's probably the most productive environment if you sink a thousand hours into fiddling with your configs and get things just right for yourself but ultimately it's a breath of fresh air when most stuff just works out of the box and your config is just bunch of checkboxes and simple text fields (or json). i've tried spacemacs and i've tried writing my own config - none of it is even close to how quickly you can get comfortable and productive in atom/vscode, even if the productivity ceiling is (maybe) lower than that of emacs. i'm in constant cognitive dissonance about electron apps. atom and vscode are just incredibly good projects.

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olau 8y ago
Maybe I'm the outlier, but what keeps me on Emacs works out of the box without any configuration: the basic editing experience. I do have a few extra things turned on, e.g. global-subword-mode so that I can traverse CamelCase as if it consisted of two words, and a few packages specific to the languages I'm programming in. But that's really secondary.
snlnspc 8y ago
I'm not much of a dev and historically just did things in n++ or vim. I gave a few IDEs a shot as I delved further into development, but wound up sticking with vim and eventually moved to spacemacs. the initial task of setting emacs up seems to be one of the most common complaints, but I don't feel I really went through that with spacemacs. other than adding a layer now and then, I think I've made less than 20 minutes of changes to my config total, most of which was looking into a bit of lisp. perhaps I should've tried a vim plugin for other ides, but I can't see myself switching to something like vscode or a jetbrains ide despite agreeing that they're good.

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olau 8y ago

Maybe I'm the outlier, but what keeps me on Emacs works out of the box without any configuration: the basic editing experience. I do have a few extra things turned on, e.g. global-subword-mode so that I can traverse CamelCase as if it consisted of two words, and a few packages specific to the languages I'm programming in. But that's really secondary.

snlnspc 8y ago

I'm not much of a dev and historically just did things in n++ or vim. I gave a few IDEs a shot as I delved further into development, but wound up sticking with vim and eventually moved to spacemacs. the initial task of setting emacs up seems to be one of the most common complaints, but I don't feel I really went through that with spacemacs. other than adding a layer now and then, I think I've made less than 20 minutes of changes to my config total, most of which was looking into a bit of lisp. perhaps I should've tried a vim plugin for other ides, but I can't see myself switching to something like vscode or a jetbrains ide despite agreeing that they're good.