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this is great! i’ve been messing around with learning common lisp lately and setting up a good dev env was harder than expected. > Use Emacs > Emacs is a very
by wkdneidbwf 3y ago
this is great! i’ve been messing around with learning common lisp lately and setting up a good dev env was harder than expected.
> Use Emacs
> Emacs is a very powerful and extensible editor. It comes with over 10,000 built-in commands.
this cracks me up. i know lots of people love emacs, but who hears “10k commands” and goes, “wow, perfect”
- lobstrosity420 3y agoHonestly, I do. I love typing M-x with a random word and finding something that does what I wanted to or is pretty close.
- turboponyy 3y agoThe thing is, the 10k commands don't get in the way. You'll never interact with them, unless you type 'M-x thingiwanttodoandwowitsalreadythere'.
- iLemming 3y ago> who hears “10k commands” and goes, “wow, perfect” You have to understand: Those thousands of commands are like songs. You wouldn't pay and subscribe to Spotify if they allowed only a few hundred songs, right? When another editor adds another command, it's not composable. You cannot meddle with it; there are no hooks, no advising. In Emacs, every command is a function, a function you can alter, extend, exploit, or override. So, yes, give me a million elisp functions. I'd love to use them in every weird way possible.