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Moved from Emacs to ST then VSCode a few years ago, but still miss how that community feels (the software, the people, the discussions, EmacsWiki...) IIRC I us
by gauchojs 6y ago
Moved from Emacs to ST then VSCode a few years ago, but still miss how that community feels (the software, the people, the discussions, EmacsWiki...)
IIRC I used to move around mostly using ido.el, when anything.el and later Helm appeared with their alternative way of displaying results, using half the window.
But then at some point got sick of the text UI and moved to Sublime Text. Probably multi-cursors made me move?
For a few years I remember opening Emacs exclusively for https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/grep-edit.el https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/grep-edit.el.
I feel like Emacs is full of those hidden gems that only a hundred people use.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoEmacs has multi cursors (https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=emacs%20multi%20cursors https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=emacs%20multi%20cursors) though I never saw them as useful, search & replace seemed better. Perhaps I was missing something.
- gpderetta 6y agoI use multicursor all the time and it works great. Probably because I never got used macros.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoI'd say spend the time to get used to macros and and regexes. Each is so capable, together they are more than the their sum.
- onetom 6y agoThere is something about the multi cursors in ST and also in JetBrains IDEs, which just makes them more intuitive than whatever I tried in Emacs so far. Maybe it just can't be combined with evil mode reasonably?... Does anyone have a recommendation how to emulate the ST multicursor more closely in Emacs?