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I love emacs and use it since two decades but it took so much effort to get into it, its hardly a thing I would recommend. Emacs is for the people that dont nee
by entropie 4y ago
I love emacs and use it since two decades but it took so much effort to get into it, its hardly a thing I would recommend. Emacs is for the people that dont need recommendations anyways, either you want to learn emacs or you find alternatives with less entry level.
- seanw444 4y agoThat's a good way of putting it. I've talked Emacs up to several friends. They all say "wow that's so sick" but then they never want to put the effort in to learn it. VS Code works good enough that they don't care.
- wiz21c 4y agoMy experience is that emacs is not that good compared to other editors when it comes to edit code (and I use emacs almost exclusively -- because I don't have time to learn something else and because I'm a total fan of RMS). The LSP thing is not that good (at least on my emacs, lsp-mode lack a lot of polish). Org-mod is OK though. The things I find really cool are - marginalia/vertico; those really help. - ability to open pictures in the editor - ability to reformat text paragraphs - (for my own use caes), R integration is really nice - super configurable
- entropie 4y agoWhen in my work environment (linux, tiling wm, emacs main window) I do almost everything with emacs. I run a terminal emulator, sometimes I open web pages, I code (obviously), I debug, I used to write mails, I use IRC exclusively with an emacs client for over a decade (rcirc). Everything text related is a joy once navigation and using emacs is purely muscle memory.