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I've been a vim guy for 5 years now. And last month I tried to switch to emacs. But it just didn't feel natural for the following reasons: 1. My usual coding s

I've been a vim guy for 5 years now. And last month I tried to switch to emacs. But it just didn't feel natural for the following reasons: 1. My usual coding session would involve Vim+Tmux, on trying the same with emacs. I was seeing some lag(although small, but noticeable). 2. I am very used to the key strokes "g-d, g-D" in vim to quickly move around calls/declarations of functions. For that emacs makes use of Ctags, which is more versatile but not great for a quick lookup. 3. I have had better luck with Vim's linting plugins like ALE and haven't found similar plugins for Emacs which was eventually a major game changer to switch back to Vim. On the other set of tools: - Org-mode and latex-preview-pane-mode are the 2 set of tools which I have integrated into my workflow and they are very suitable to me. - ERC is also pretty neat. - I have tried Magit and although seems useful, for my use case of Emacs currently doesn't hold a lot of promise. - Switch to Gnus, mu4e as mail clients replacements is too painful, at least to a Thunderbird user.

zeveb 7y ago
> I have had better luck with Vim's linting plugins like ALE and haven't found similar plugins for Emacs … Did you try flycheck?
dan-robertson 7y ago
Regarding your first point, do you mean that you try running emacs inside a tmux inside a terminal? If that is the case, I would recommend not doing that. The emacs gui will give you more colours, images, thinner window borders, better keyboard shortcuts (eg a difference between C-m and RET), mouse controls (if you ever want them), as well as potentially less lag. The analog to the vim-in-tmux workflow is to instead keep emacs always open in the gui, run somewhere between none and all shell commands from emacs (depending on how you feel), and have a terminal in another window (as you might for web browsing or email) for more prolonged terminal things. One might skip this somewhat by running shell (or even term-mode) in emacs. Similarly, for editing remote files one uses tramp to ssh from inside emacs and edit files whereas with vim one sshes into the remote box and runs vim.
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zeveb 7y ago

> I have had better luck with Vim's linting plugins like ALE and haven't found similar plugins for Emacs … Did you try flycheck?

dan-robertson 7y ago

Regarding your first point, do you mean that you try running emacs inside a tmux inside a terminal? If that is the case, I would recommend not doing that. The emacs gui will give you more colours, images, thinner window borders, better keyboard shortcuts (eg a difference between C-m and RET), mouse controls (if you ever want them), as well as potentially less lag. The analog to the vim-in-tmux workflow is to instead keep emacs always open in the gui, run somewhere between none and all shell commands from emacs (depending on how you feel), and have a terminal in another window (as you might for web browsing or email) for more prolonged terminal things. One might skip this somewhat by running shell (or even term-mode) in emacs. Similarly, for editing remote files one uses tramp to ssh from inside emacs and edit files whereas with vim one sshes into the remote box and runs vim.

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