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Magit was the emacs killer app for me. I'm now slowly learning other parts of emacs, such as org-mode.

• agumonkey 6y ago
  I was in college around the svn days, then git came then IDEs tried to integrate.. at best you had cute crud. First use of magit was a shocker. It's so good it makes you usage better.. crafting thin coherent commits in 2 seconds. Out of curiosity and objectivity I tried Eclipse / IDEA git integration (a few years ago tbf).. they were still complex and distracting. I'm not fond of org-mode it's too large imo but maybe it will fit your brain and you'll have a blast. Best feature to me is the source block (~tiny adhoc notebook).
  • b0afc375b5 6y ago
    Yes code snippets is most of the reason why I forced myself to learn org-mode. I have several *.notes files (node.notes, ruby.notes, linux.notes) in which I place important things I've learned about a particular subject, but the code snippets in them aren't executable (yet). Ultimately I want the code snippets in them to be executed in a docker container so that I won't have to install various dev tools in my host machine.
  • e3bc54b2 6y ago
    Org-mode is too big, but you don't have to use all of it. You can only learn the tiny subset you need and simply ignore the rest.