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Over the course of my career I've moved from Emacs (in-terminal), to Spacemacs (emacs mode), to Spacemacs (vim mode), to Doom Emacs (vim mode), to neovim (in-te
by cybrexalpha 4y ago
Over the course of my career I've moved from Emacs (in-terminal), to Spacemacs (emacs mode), to Spacemacs (vim mode), to Doom Emacs (vim mode), to neovim (in-terminal).
After a while of using both emacs and vim text editing, I found the vim way much easier for me. I used emacs with "evil mode" (vim keybindings) for a long time, but I wasn't using all of the other features the author here speaks about. So I found it easier to run Neovim alone instead of the extra complexity of getting emacs to behave like vim.
- lc9er 4y agoDid you customize Emacs much? Or add functionality, rather than just customize? I'm a long time vim/nvim user and as much as Lua brought to the party, I'm finding I want to add functionality, and that feels more appealing in Emacs.
- cybrexalpha 4y agoMostly just LSP integration. I didn't really feel the need to manage my email or filesystem with Emacs. Even git I prefer to use on the command line than use an editor/IDE plugin for.
- lc9er 4y agoYeah same. I'll probably spend a some more time with Emacs, having fun toying around with it, and then realize all I really want is a fast, snappy editor. Then I'll be back to nvim. Wash-rinse-repeat every couple of years.
- cybrexalpha 4y agoNothing wrong with that. There was nothing wrong with emacs in vim mode — it functioned just fine. I'm familiar with lisp so it wasn't even hard to configure particularly, just not as easy as neovim for my particular use-case.