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I went from being indifferent to emacs to becoming a hater (just because of the fan club which can get a bit annoying) to actually using emacs and loving it so
by kinkrtyavimoodh 7y ago
I went from being indifferent to emacs to becoming a hater (just because of the fan club which can get a bit annoying) to actually using emacs and loving it so much that I almost became a part of the same annoying fan club.
There's a certain elegance to emacs that takes a while to get used to but when you do, it just transforms the way you do most things on your computer. Just goes on to show RMS's genius.
- neilv 7y agoI was a vi person, then I tried Emacs, then I went full-Emacs (even for email, and sometimes Web), and released some of my extensions.[1] Then I decided to try to be in less of an Emacs OS, and intentionally moved things like email out of it, even though the non-Emacs stuff in some ways didn't work as well. Lately, I've been moving some new things to Emacs, like calendar/todo, and it's much more effective than the GUI tools I had going for that. I'm tempted to move email back, as well (but will probably write a new MUA instead, in Rust or Scheme). [1] https://www.neilvandyke.org/emacs/ https://www.neilvandyke.org/emacs/
- jammygit 7y agoHow does it treat people with rsi? Out of hopes of avoiding rsi, I was considering choosing vim over emacs
- nesadi 7y agoYou might consider evil/evil-collection/spacemacs to get vim modal editing (and keybinds) in Emacs.
- scns 7y agoCheck out spacemacs
- emptysongglass 7y agoI’d suggest dealing with the issue further back, at the hardware level, with an ergonomic keyboard. Get one with “thumb-islands” and you’re set!