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I'm on the same boat as you. I love Emacs, the uniform keybindings and especially Magit, I thought I could never use anything else until I started working with
by harrygeez 6y ago
I'm on the same boat as you. I love Emacs, the uniform keybindings and especially Magit, I thought I could never use anything else until I started working with TypeScript React in my current job, which Emacs has very bad support for.
The funny thing is: I don't even consider VSCode a superior text editor, it's just that Emacs is _so slow_. I used Emacs back then because compared to many other editors and IDE it allowed me to work faster, but VSCode despite all its shortcomings has done the very same thing Emacs did for me previously.
I still use Emacs every day at work just for Magit, but whenever Emacs freeze just for a few seconds every time I perform a big merge I just feel like finishing up the task in VSCode
- michaelmrose 6y agoDo you use Emacs in windows?
- harrygeez 6y agoI've used it on Windows before and I think I know what you're talking about. However, right now I'm using it on macOS actually, the mac-port to be more specific.
- mtalantikite 6y agoI had a similar experience recently, where I had to spend some time working in TypeScript on a React front-end and my emacs really was falling over unfortunately. Tried tide, tried the LSP, but ultimately I found myself in VSCode in order to make the deadline. Turns out there is a pretty great magit layer in VSCode (https://github.com/kahole/edamagit https://github.com/kahole/edamagit), and as a former long term vim user that had been using spacemacs, a great spacemacs-like bundle for VSCode (https://github.com/VSpaceCode/VSpaceCode https://github.com/VSpaceCode/VSpaceCode). It’s the first time I’ve actually felt like I could drop emacs if I wanted to, I actually was enjoying the setup.
- Koshkin 6y ago> Emacs is _so slow_ That’s exactly what it felt like in 1991: “eight megabytes and constantly swapping!”