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Emacs deserves the love! (I say this as a former Emacs user who switched to VS Code; I'm now frustrated enough with VSC to be reconsidering Emacs after the 29 a

Emacs deserves the love! (I say this as a former Emacs user who switched to VS Code; I'm now frustrated enough with VSC to be reconsidering Emacs after the 29 announcements.) It's encouraging to see the big quality of life additions in 29, if only because one person's “just a package-install away” is another's “should be bundled by default”. And it's not just the headline features. There are many little things from the 29 notes[1] that solve minor niggles or replace chunks of my old “retired” config: - New command to change the font size globally. To increase the font size, type 'C-x C-M-+' or 'C-x C-M-='; to decrease it, type 'C-x C-M--'; to restore the font size, type 'C-x C-M-0'. - New command 'restart-emacs'. This is like 'save-buffers-kill-emacs', but instead of just killing the current Emacs process at the end, it starts a new Emacs process (using the same command line arguments as the running Emacs process). - New command 'rename-visited-file'. This command renames the file visited by the current buffer by moving it to a new location, and also makes the buffer visit this new file. [1]: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/NEWS.29 https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/NEWS.2...

anyfoo 4y ago
> New command 'rename-visited-file'. This command renames the file visited by the current buffer by moving it to a new location, and also makes the buffer visit this new file. FINALLYYYYYYY!
- medstrom 4y ago
  For those still on 28, `crux-rename-file-and-buffer` does the same thing (https://github.com/bbatsov/crux https://github.com/bbatsov/crux). I've been using it for half a decade at this point.
  - sph 4y ago
    crux is such a fantastic quality-of-life package.
a1369209993 4y ago
> because one person's "just a package-install away" is another's "should be bundled by default". FWIW, it's also another's "has transitive dependencies that try to brick my computer". Claims like "just a package-install away" would be significantly more convincing if they could fix that (ie, fix (remove) the ability of packages to have transitive dependencies). (This isn't anything specific to EMACS, to be clear; I've never seen a mainstream package system that bothered to enforce a meaningful limit on the depth of dependency graphs.)

anyfoo 4y ago

> New command 'rename-visited-file'. This command renames the file visited by the current buffer by moving it to a new location, and also makes the buffer visit this new file. FINALLYYYYYYY!

medstrom 4y ago
For those still on 28, `crux-rename-file-and-buffer` does the same thing (https://github.com/bbatsov/crux https://github.com/bbatsov/crux). I've been using it for half a decade at this point.
- sph 4y ago
  crux is such a fantastic quality-of-life package.

a1369209993 4y ago

> because one person's "just a package-install away" is another's "should be bundled by default". FWIW, it's also another's "has transitive dependencies that try to brick my computer". Claims like "just a package-install away" would be significantly more convincing if they could fix that (ie, fix (remove) the ability of packages to have transitive dependencies). (This isn't anything specific to EMACS, to be clear; I've never seen a mainstream package system that bothered to enforce a meaningful limit on the depth of dependency graphs.)