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> My desktop editor of choice is not and likely never will be emacs That is a shame. Why?

reificator 5y ago
I hesitate to answer because I sense an editor war incoming, but I'm going to assume your question was in earnest and not evangelical or judgemental. Also to be clear, because I know people can be touchy about editor preferences: I say this only as an analogy for the feeling I get, not as an analogy for users who use emacs or other tools. For whatever reason emacs just feels like I'm using left-handed scissors, and I'm not left handed. It doesn't mean I don't think people should use emacs, it just doesn't feel right in my hands.
- sokoloff 5y ago
  Nothing wrong with using emacs for just org-mode if you want to use more of the interactive features. You give up something vs someone who’s “all in” on emacs, but it’s workable. I’m teaching my son to code and we use emacs only for magit. He may get more and more exposure down the road, but for now that’s enough to justify what little bare minimum learning curve is needed to get a great git porcelain.
- hirvi74 5y ago
  > It doesn't mean I don't think people should use emacs, it just doesn't feel right in my hands. There is absolutely nothing wrong with your opinion. Do you like to tinker with things in general? That is a common personality trait that I have seen amongst many of fellow Emacs users. I enjoy tinkering with all kinds of things, so Emacs fits my personality well. Though, sometimes it's easy to get distracted tinkering instead of actually doing productive work (for me, at least). I still say that my Emacs config has been my single longest running "project."
totetsu 5y ago
I want to use org at work but the performace of emacs on windows is beyond unusable. also copy paste just doesn't work without pulling teath. its such a dissapointment.
- alex_smart 5y ago
  I have been using emacs on windows for years. The only thing that is unusably slow for me is magit. >also copy paste just doesn't work without pulling teath. What do you mean?
GongOfFour 5y ago
No OP but I personally prefer the simplicity of VS Code's diff and conflict resolution point-and-click tooling to using ediff/smerge. I also work in a project with some very deep directory structures and like the VS Code sidebar much more.

I hesitate to answer because I sense an editor war incoming, but I'm going to assume your question was in earnest and not evangelical or judgemental. Also to be clear, because I know people can be touchy about editor preferences: I say this only as an analogy for the feeling I get, not as an analogy for users who use emacs or other tools. For whatever reason emacs just feels like I'm using left-handed scissors, and I'm not left handed. It doesn't mean I don't think people should use emacs, it just doesn't feel right in my hands.

sokoloff 5y ago
Nothing wrong with using emacs for just org-mode if you want to use more of the interactive features. You give up something vs someone who’s “all in” on emacs, but it’s workable. I’m teaching my son to code and we use emacs only for magit. He may get more and more exposure down the road, but for now that’s enough to justify what little bare minimum learning curve is needed to get a great git porcelain.
hirvi74 5y ago
> It doesn't mean I don't think people should use emacs, it just doesn't feel right in my hands. There is absolutely nothing wrong with your opinion. Do you like to tinker with things in general? That is a common personality trait that I have seen amongst many of fellow Emacs users. I enjoy tinkering with all kinds of things, so Emacs fits my personality well. Though, sometimes it's easy to get distracted tinkering instead of actually doing productive work (for me, at least). I still say that my Emacs config has been my single longest running "project."

totetsu 5y ago

I want to use org at work but the performace of emacs on windows is beyond unusable. also copy paste just doesn't work without pulling teath. its such a dissapointment.

alex_smart 5y ago
I have been using emacs on windows for years. The only thing that is unusably slow for me is magit. >also copy paste just doesn't work without pulling teath. What do you mean?

GongOfFour 5y ago

No OP but I personally prefer the simplicity of VS Code's diff and conflict resolution point-and-click tooling to using ediff/smerge. I also work in a project with some very deep directory structures and like the VS Code sidebar much more.