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I use emacs for two primary use cases: - Niche programming languages tend to have invested resources into building an emacs mode for their language. Important
by platz 7y ago
I use emacs for two primary use cases:
- Niche programming languages tend to have invested resources into building an emacs mode for their language. Importantly, these emacs modes tend to be maintained by core language contributors. In contrast, VSCode or other editors tend to be community contributions which are discarded over a period of months/years.
- markdown editing
- that's it (I've tried magit (too clunky/sensitive), org-mode (too much lock-in), etc
On windows i find Emacs horribly slow to render text/buffer updates.
On linux it is blazing fast.
- pvik 7y agoI find it weird that your point against org-mode is "too much lock-in". It is a plain text format, which looks good even wherever it is viewed. Pandoc even supports org-mode[1], which should let you convert an org-file to say markdown if you want.
- platz 7y agosure, only if you stick to bare-bones org-mode. if you start using any of the "power-features" unique to org-mode you're stuck. If you restrict yourself to markdown-compatibilty, why not just write in markdown?