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Why I still use emacs: I've been using it for 10+ years and my fingers and general workflow are very very used to it. I regularly use vim (for quick editing and

by lflux 15y ago

Why I still use emacs: I've been using it for 10+ years and my fingers and general workflow are very very used to it. I regularly use vim (for quick editing and vimdiff), but keep coming back. If only emacs had a "project drawer"/"tree drawer" like textmate, then it would be golden. ecb doesn't quite cut it for some reason, I keep reverting to textmate each time I need to get an overview of a huge source tree I'm not familiar with.

mark_h 15y ago
Out of curiosity, if you've used emacs for 10 years I'm assuming you're familiar with ediff; what do you find so useful about vimdiff? (I've never used it, so I'm genuinely curious)
- lflux 15y ago
  Generally I use vimdiff when working with tests and use it for diffing between the expected output and the real output. It's run in the terminal as opposed to inside my huge emacs process and I don't really know why else I don't use ediff, vimdiff is just part of my editing workflow.
  - mark_h 15y ago
    Fair enough, cheers.
brl 15y ago
Have you tried nav? https://code.google.com/p/emacs-nav/ https://code.google.com/p/emacs-nav/
jeekl 15y ago
Try speedbar or sr-speedbar: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SrSpeedbar http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SrSpeedbar
- lflux 15y ago
  Neither those nor emacs-nav come close to working and looking the same way the file tree drawer in TextMate (or other IDEs) does. speedbar only shows directories, not files, when I navigate dirs in it.
  - macmac 15y ago
    You have to enable file types in the Speedbar cf. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2220005/how-do-i-enable-Speedbar-to-display-all-types-of-files http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2220005/how-do-i-enable-S... I think you will find that the TextMate tree drawer is a toy compared to the Speedbar.
- bitcracker 15y ago
  Thanks! In org-mode I can even access list nodes within the files in the SpeedBar immediately! I agree with markokocic: Emacs is brilliant. I tested many editors but always returned to Emacs. In the beginning Emacs is a pain to learn but once you get it it's indispensable.

by lflux 15y ago

mark_h 15y ago

Out of curiosity, if you've used emacs for 10 years I'm assuming you're familiar with ediff; what do you find so useful about vimdiff? (I've never used it, so I'm genuinely curious)

lflux 15y ago
Generally I use vimdiff when working with tests and use it for diffing between the expected output and the real output. It's run in the terminal as opposed to inside my huge emacs process and I don't really know why else I don't use ediff, vimdiff is just part of my editing workflow.
- mark_h 15y ago
  Fair enough, cheers.

brl 15y ago

Have you tried nav? https://code.google.com/p/emacs-nav/ https://code.google.com/p/emacs-nav/

jeekl 15y ago

Try speedbar or sr-speedbar: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SrSpeedbar http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SrSpeedbar

lflux 15y ago
Neither those nor emacs-nav come close to working and looking the same way the file tree drawer in TextMate (or other IDEs) does. speedbar only shows directories, not files, when I navigate dirs in it.
- macmac 15y ago
  You have to enable file types in the Speedbar cf. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2220005/how-do-i-enable-Speedbar-to-display-all-types-of-files http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2220005/how-do-i-enable-S... I think you will find that the TextMate tree drawer is a toy compared to the Speedbar.
bitcracker 15y ago
Thanks! In org-mode I can even access list nodes within the files in the SpeedBar immediately! I agree with markokocic: Emacs is brilliant. I tested many editors but always returned to Emacs. In the beginning Emacs is a pain to learn but once you get it it's indispensable.