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What's the learning curve if you're not an Emacs user?
by ogogmad 4y ago
What's the learning curve if you're not an Emacs user?
- c54 4y agoEmacs with spacemacs or doom-emacs’s spacemacs layer (both lf which use vim bindings aka “evil mode”) is quite similar to vim as far as text editing goes. For me this made the initial learning curve pretty approachable.
- lvass 4y agoIt's quite linear if you're using the manual / C-h prefix. More like a spiral if you're like me and keep reaching for external packages to solve problems you're not sure you have. Either way it's really worth it.
- dan-robertson 4y agoI suspect it’s possible to only learn a few things, e.g. C-g to get unstuck, C-x C-c to quit, some config to have a key to open magit status or a clever bash alias, and then the keys in magit for which there is documentation (regular Emacs is also documented) and semi-documented in that when you e.g. press c to start a commit, a pop up appears with eg flags you can set or commit-like actions like reword/amend.
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