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vim zealot who's been using emacs lately: pros: - magit. unbelievable. - org mode. vimwiki pales in comparison - best vim emulation I've used - impressive oper
by knewter 8y ago
vim zealot who's been using emacs lately:
pros:
- magit. unbelievable.
- org mode. vimwiki pales in comparison
- best vim emulation I've used
- impressive operating system :)
- configuration is awesome. doing literate org mode configuration with org babel.
- lisp is cool.
cons:
- haven't gotten comfortable dealing with "projects" yet, navigating files feels awkward.
- doesn't feel quite as good as an editor as vim, but better than anything else out there.
- no flutter mode
- elm integration not quite as nice as I'd like
it feels like I'll get over the cons.
- euler_ 8y agoEvil mode.
- pmoriarty 8y ago"navigating files feels awkward" What makes navigating files in vim so much better? Vim was my primary editor for decades, but I was never particularly impressed with its file-navigation plugins, and mostly used the shell for file navigation. Emacs is really no worse in this regard, from what I can see. It has packages which are clones of or similar to vim plugins like NerdTree and the like (which I don't like myself and don't use, but they're there if that's your thing), and it has a bunch of other ways to navigate files -- like doing so from the minibuffer using counsel-find-file, or from dired, or from within a shell running inside Emacs, etc. "doesn't feel quite as good as an editor as vim" In what way? Have you tried evil? It makes Emacs 90% like vim, in my experience, and I rarely miss anything from the vim world myself (though, honestly, there are a handful of things that would be nice to have.. but not nearly enough for me to contemplate switching back to vim).