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As someone who is a basic vim editor and uses the occasional Idea IDE, would it be worthwhile to invest myself in an emacs environment?
by BeFlatXIII 5y ago
As someone who is a basic vim editor and uses the occasional Idea IDE, would it be worthwhile to invest myself in an emacs environment?
- johannboehme 5y agoNot an answer but an anecdote: I am a long time vim user and wanted to learn clojure. Everyone recommended emacs, because of it's lisp and repl abilities and ease of use. I spent two weeks learning emacs, elisp and the ecosystem. I was not able to get it to run via WSL with Frontend integration (shadow-cljs). Several help channels where unable to assist, since they all just blamed other parts of the environment (WSL, the LSP, DoomEmacs or the clojure plugin..) I eventually got it to work, just to find out, that vims minimal plugins that i used (vim-iced, sexp, and a Coc plugin) where faster, more reliable and better to use than the emacs counterparts.. and they just worked, without any troubleshooting.
- lytefm 5y agoI'd say that learning vanilla Emacs and all the internals is probably not worth it. But if you'd like to try out Emacs, have a look at Doom Emacs or Spacemacs - then you can still use vim keybindings for most stuff. And just activating some of the included modules will give you enough to easily try out some of the best emacs packages out there. I wouldn't bother setting up emacs for programming, but org-mode is amazing.