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> I completely agree. I used vanilla Emacs for about a decade before finding list-packages I think it helps to think of Emacs as just another platform - and a

by cannam 7y ago

> I completely agree. I used vanilla Emacs for about a decade before finding list-packages I think it helps to think of Emacs as just another platform - and a nice stable one. You may or may not use, or know about, all the "applications" available for it. New stuff comes along that you haven't heard about; you might occasionally want to review things; and it doesn't really matter if you don't. I've been using it for the usual handful of decades and have gone through phases of using one exciting new thing or another, but I've dropped most of them - I no longer run builds from Emacs (I do recompilation in the background in a separate terminal), nor read mail or use version control software from within it. I don't use evil and my colour scheme is mostly black-on-white. My .emacs has ended up almost back where it was 25 years ago. (In fact it still has references to Epoch and Lucid Emacs in a couple of comments.) The two additions in the past couple of decades that have made a big difference to me are Tramp (a nice upgrade from ange-ftp) and the ability to set non-integer line spacings.

nothrabannosir 7y ago
As an Emacs neophyte and vi vicenarian, I'd love to know why you ended up ditching evil alongside the other goods. I see the ortholinearity of e-mail and vcs in an editor, but evil seemed to me living within the editor, rather than atop it. Appropriately: a minor mode rather than a major. Like, say, editorcfg. Was this not your experience?
- cannam 7y ago
  Oh, evil wasn't something I ditched - I never used it. I just mentioned it because it's so often cited as a vital thing. (ooh, nice potential pun there in vi-tal... hm) Same goes for the colour scheme. It's the higher-level applications that have come and gone. Sorry to be unclear.
useragent86 7y ago
> I think it helps to think of Emacs as just another platform - and a nice stable one. You may or may not use, or know about, all the "applications" available for it. New stuff comes along that you haven't heard about; you might occasionally want to review things; and it doesn't really matter if you don't. That's one of the best explanations I've heard. Thanks.

by cannam 7y ago

nothrabannosir 7y ago

As an Emacs neophyte and vi vicenarian, I'd love to know why you ended up ditching evil alongside the other goods. I see the ortholinearity of e-mail and vcs in an editor, but evil seemed to me living within the editor, rather than atop it. Appropriately: a minor mode rather than a major. Like, say, editorcfg. Was this not your experience?

cannam 7y ago
Oh, evil wasn't something I ditched - I never used it. I just mentioned it because it's so often cited as a vital thing. (ooh, nice potential pun there in vi-tal... hm) Same goes for the colour scheme. It's the higher-level applications that have come and gone. Sorry to be unclear.

useragent86 7y ago

> I think it helps to think of Emacs as just another platform - and a nice stable one. You may or may not use, or know about, all the "applications" available for it. New stuff comes along that you haven't heard about; you might occasionally want to review things; and it doesn't really matter if you don't. That's one of the best explanations I've heard. Thanks.