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I just disagree with this view, lots of people use it to code. It should be easy to setup a coding environment with it. That's all I mean.

_a_a_a_ 4y ago
Long term emacs user, and I agree. I need to learn to program it but more importantly, I should be able to install a package and have it work because I use emacs for just that - work. There's too much 'add this include your .emacs' etc. But it's getting better.
pritambaral 4y ago
> I just disagree with this view, lots of people use it to code. I agree. It wasn't obvious to me, at first, that Emacs is not a code editor, rather just a Lisp program for editing lots of text. And I didn't even know what Lisp was at the time, so it wouldn't have helped either way. But ... > It should be easy to setup a coding environment with it. It kinda is. I started using Emacs with just a Spacemacs install. And I didn't need to learn anything about Emacs for a long time after that. It was only when Spacemacs stopped being maintained, and I started facing issues due to that, that I looked deeper. It helped that I had learned what Lisp is (Common Lisp, though, not Emacs Lisp) for it to finally click, so I got lucky that way. Now, even when I know Emacs (and Emacs Lisp) rather well, I still stick to Doom Emacs to "setup a coding environment with it".
celeritascelery 4y ago
The Emacs frameworks (doom, spacemacs, etc) make it pretty easy to setup. That being said, if your primary concern is ease, vscode would be a better choice. Emacs is more focused on power and extensibility.
- NeutralForest 4y ago
  I know, I'm using Emacs everyday. And I dislike the frameworks because they obfuscate what's going on in Emacs, at least to me. I just think that since we're pushing features like eglot or tree-sitter to core, we should also focus on making them easy to use.

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I just disagree with this view, lots of people use it to code. It should be easy to setup a coding environment with it. That's all I mean.

by NeutralForest 4y ago

_a_a_a_ 4y ago
Long term emacs user, and I agree. I need to learn to program it but more importantly, I should be able to install a package and have it work because I use emacs for just that - work. There's too much 'add this include your .emacs' etc. But it's getting better.
pritambaral 4y ago
> I just disagree with this view, lots of people use it to code. I agree. It wasn't obvious to me, at first, that Emacs is not a code editor, rather just a Lisp program for editing lots of text. And I didn't even know what Lisp was at the time, so it wouldn't have helped either way. But ... > It should be easy to setup a coding environment with it. It kinda is. I started using Emacs with just a Spacemacs install. And I didn't need to learn anything about Emacs for a long time after that. It was only when Spacemacs stopped being maintained, and I started facing issues due to that, that I looked deeper. It helped that I had learned what Lisp is (Common Lisp, though, not Emacs Lisp) for it to finally click, so I got lucky that way. Now, even when I know Emacs (and Emacs Lisp) rather well, I still stick to Doom Emacs to "setup a coding environment with it".
celeritascelery 4y ago
The Emacs frameworks (doom, spacemacs, etc) make it pretty easy to setup. That being said, if your primary concern is ease, vscode would be a better choice. Emacs is more focused on power and extensibility.
- NeutralForest 4y ago
  I know, I'm using Emacs everyday. And I dislike the frameworks because they obfuscate what's going on in Emacs, at least to me. I just think that since we're pushing features like eglot or tree-sitter to core, we should also focus on making them easy to use.