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Org mode is recommended if you have tabular data, in case there are any Emacs users that still haven't tried it. (Which might sound ridiculous - but who knows?

• drunkpotato 3y ago
  org-mode tables are great. So is magit, I highly recommend it! I'm comfortable with command line git, use it quite a lot, but I also use magit a lot, and magit is especially great as a much better `git add -p`.
  • mbork_pl 3y ago
    > org-mode tables are great True, though they tend not to be very fast when they grow. (I have a table with almost 2000 rows and editing it lags a bit.)
    • zelphirkalt 3y ago
      I found that keeping tables narrow (not too many characters per line) helps. I try to build my tables so that most of the logic (I do spreadsheets with them) is oriented towards more rows instead of more columns. However, I've not had 2000 lines tables yet. Perhaps a good trick is to divide them into multiple ones? Perhaps one for each category of things, if you have any different categories.
  • kqr 3y ago
    If anything, magit made me more comfortable with command line Git, by helping me discover things (--force-with-lease) and grok concepts (history editing) that I otherwise would not learn as quickly.
  • pxc 3y ago
    > magit is especially great as a much better `git add -p`. In Git, except for when adding new files, I always use `git add -p` to stage changes. And it's definitely the number one thing I do with Magic in terms of frequency. I can confirm that if you're an `add -p` kinda person, you'll love Magit.
• jolux 3y ago
  Go use Magit! Probably my favorite part of Emacs.
  • itsmartapuntocm 3y ago
    It’s my favorite git client altogether.
    • jolux 3y ago
      yeah, I keep Emacs open just for Magit even when using other editors.
      • User23 3y ago
        Magit revolutionized my git workflow. Rebase went from being a chore that I put off to easy peasy. My coworkers think I'm some kind of git wizard.
        • Conscat 3y ago
          For me, being able to go straight from a selection in a code file to a log of all changes to that specific code, which I can then filter further, is what gets the strongest reactions from my coworkers.
          • mbork_pl 3y ago
            WHAT!? You can use M-x magit-log-buffer-file with an active selection and see only the changes to the selected portion? This is so obvious in hindsight and so cool... Thanks a million!
          • lsowen 3y ago
            What?! How do you do this? I love magic but haven't discovered this.
          • lordgrenville 3y ago
            TIL magit-log-buffer-file...
• pkkm 3y ago
  If you use both git and Emacs but not magit, you're missing out. It's so good that it makes me keep Emacs open even when I'm using another editor or an IDE. These days pretty much everything has basic git integration, but few interfaces can match magit at doing non-trivial operations conveniently. With magit, it only takes a few keystrokes to selectively commit some changed lines, reword a past commit, do an interactive rebase, or use the reflog.