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Emacs is a huge menu of endless configurability. I, for one, fancy the Spacemacs distribution for modal editing and a less 'exciting' configuration experience.
by smitty1e 6y ago
Emacs is a huge menu of endless configurability.
I, for one, fancy the Spacemacs distribution for modal editing and a less 'exciting' configuration experience.
But software configuration is so subjective that expectations of ergodicity (to use that elite-sounding term I just nicked from the other thread) seem premature.
- pdimitar 6y ago> I, for one, fancy the Spacemacs distribution for modal editing and a less 'exciting' configuration experience. Same, but it's a moving and a rather fragile target. I had to rewind commits or re-clone the repo a number of times in order to get back to a working editor. > But software configuration is so subjective that expectations of ergodicity (to use that elite-sounding term I just nicked from the other thread) seem premature. Maybe -- 50/50. You could also argue that a big disclaimer -- "This is an editor for people who enjoy endlessly configuring and debugging it" -- would be a fair announcement and maybe I wouldn't have started with Emacs at all.
- smitty1e 6y agoEmacs is to editors what Gentoo is to distributions. I tend not to tinker too heavily with .spacemacs, and got off of source distros after blowing up X11.
- pdimitar 6y agoGood analogy, yep!
- jimmyvalmer 6y ago> Emacs is to editors what Gentoo is to distributions. I spent the last month futzing with Gentoo with no previous exposure. Yes, a thousand times yes.