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Watching Jonathan Blow flying around Emacs on his Twitch streams is always very impressive.

gnuvince 8y ago
I find Jon enraging, especially when he whines about Emacs: a number of the things he complains about are either fixed in newer versions of Emacs (he's still on Emacs 23) or packages offer a vastly improved user experience.
- losthobbies 8y ago
  I'd be worried about Jon if he wasnt complaining about something.
brandonmenc 8y ago
So I just pulled up this video of him coding with emacs: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/343721241 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/343721241 Correct me if I'm wrong, but the first two minutes is him trying to find an instance of like, a variable or something, and he individually goes into a bunch of files one by one and does a text search, then eventually pulls up a third-party file search tool outside of emacs to do it. On Jetbrains IDEs I would just hit "shift-shift" and get a project-wide search dialog that searches across all of my files and even tells me what kind each instance of the text string is - variable, class, etc - as I'm typing.
- vvillena 8y ago
  Does IntelliJ support the Jai language? In any case, "M-x helm-projectile-find-file" is the Emacs equivalent of IntelliJ's shift-shift. It's nicely bound to "SPC p f" if you use Spacemacs. You can also search tags (variables, symbols, classes, etc) with "SPC p g". Plus, going for a 3rd party search tool is personal preference, Emacs can also do that. I'm a heavy user of both Spacemacs and IntelliJ, and while the quick search interface of IntelliJ is awesome, Emacs also has this functionality. I assume Jonathan's problem in that video is due to poor language tooling, plus his personal workflow preferences.
- tcoff91 8y ago
  On emacs I just hit SPC s r p and then type my search and it will search my entire project with ripgrep (which is so fast)
madmulita 8y ago
Impresive as a developer but not as an emacs power user. One thing that makes me very nervous is seeing someone moving the pointer char by char. Do yourself a favor, learn how to jump around!
- WalterGR 8y ago
  Do you know of any videos demonstrating true Emacs mastery?
  - void_starer 8y ago
    http://emacsrocks.com/ http://emacsrocks.com/ for one.

I find Jon enraging, especially when he whines about Emacs: a number of the things he complains about are either fixed in newer versions of Emacs (he's still on Emacs 23) or packages offer a vastly improved user experience.

losthobbies 8y ago
I'd be worried about Jon if he wasnt complaining about something.

brandonmenc 8y ago

So I just pulled up this video of him coding with emacs: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/343721241 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/343721241 Correct me if I'm wrong, but the first two minutes is him trying to find an instance of like, a variable or something, and he individually goes into a bunch of files one by one and does a text search, then eventually pulls up a third-party file search tool outside of emacs to do it. On Jetbrains IDEs I would just hit "shift-shift" and get a project-wide search dialog that searches across all of my files and even tells me what kind each instance of the text string is - variable, class, etc - as I'm typing.

vvillena 8y ago
Does IntelliJ support the Jai language? In any case, "M-x helm-projectile-find-file" is the Emacs equivalent of IntelliJ's shift-shift. It's nicely bound to "SPC p f" if you use Spacemacs. You can also search tags (variables, symbols, classes, etc) with "SPC p g". Plus, going for a 3rd party search tool is personal preference, Emacs can also do that. I'm a heavy user of both Spacemacs and IntelliJ, and while the quick search interface of IntelliJ is awesome, Emacs also has this functionality. I assume Jonathan's problem in that video is due to poor language tooling, plus his personal workflow preferences.
tcoff91 8y ago
On emacs I just hit SPC s r p and then type my search and it will search my entire project with ripgrep (which is so fast)

madmulita 8y ago

Impresive as a developer but not as an emacs power user. One thing that makes me very nervous is seeing someone moving the pointer char by char. Do yourself a favor, learn how to jump around!

WalterGR 8y ago
Do you know of any videos demonstrating true Emacs mastery?
- void_starer 8y ago
  http://emacsrocks.com/ http://emacsrocks.com/ for one.