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I've been tooling around with emacs, having plopped down vimpulse and viper on it. I get slime for clojure, the power of elisp for modifications and so on, as

I've been tooling around with emacs, having plopped down vimpulse and viper on it. I get slime for clojure, the power of elisp for modifications and so on, as well as my preferred editing style, which is modal. It's not for everyone, but it works for me. It helps that my life isn't terribly busy, and I enjoy taking the time to make everything work together. Of course, caps rebinding is a must for either. It's been fun, either way. Time will tell if it ends up being practical.

gnosis 15y ago
When I started learning Lisp, I tried using Emacs with viper and vimpulse. Although it did make using Emacs less painful, it still required way too much knowledge of Emacs to use effectively and configure than I had time to dedicate to learning it. Emacs+SLIME+vimpulse+viper might be good enough for someone who already knows Emacs or who hasn't invested a lot of time in learning vim. But for someone fluent in vim, I just don't think huge time investment in learning Emacs well is worth it.
- doorhammer 15y ago
  That's completely understandable. I really don't have a huge reason to be doing things this way. I've just been going through The Joy of Clojure and decided to give emacs a spin, and I wanted some similar editing idioms while messing with it. I've basically been translating the shortcuts and techniques I use in vim into some ugly elisp, bit by bit, assuming they don't work as expected with vimpule/viper. I wouldn't say it's an amazing solution, but mucking through the emacs docs to get things working has been a quick way to get a basic proficiency in how emacs works, and how elisp can be used. Ultimately I still end up in vim for most of my editing, and I keep tacking things onto emacs as I go, but mostly when I'm just writing some clojure. I wouldn't say it's efficient at all; it's just interesting enough to kill time with because my life isn't very busy and it seems 'nifty'.

gnosis 15y ago

When I started learning Lisp, I tried using Emacs with viper and vimpulse. Although it did make using Emacs less painful, it still required way too much knowledge of Emacs to use effectively and configure than I had time to dedicate to learning it. Emacs+SLIME+vimpulse+viper might be good enough for someone who already knows Emacs or who hasn't invested a lot of time in learning vim. But for someone fluent in vim, I just don't think huge time investment in learning Emacs well is worth it.

doorhammer 15y ago
That's completely understandable. I really don't have a huge reason to be doing things this way. I've just been going through The Joy of Clojure and decided to give emacs a spin, and I wanted some similar editing idioms while messing with it. I've basically been translating the shortcuts and techniques I use in vim into some ugly elisp, bit by bit, assuming they don't work as expected with vimpule/viper. I wouldn't say it's an amazing solution, but mucking through the emacs docs to get things working has been a quick way to get a basic proficiency in how emacs works, and how elisp can be used. Ultimately I still end up in vim for most of my editing, and I keep tacking things onto emacs as I go, but mostly when I'm just writing some clojure. I wouldn't say it's efficient at all; it's just interesting enough to kill time with because my life isn't very busy and it seems 'nifty'.