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I mean the other way around? Living inside Emacs separates you from lots of "how everyone else does it" over time and is hard to integrate with "everything els
by jrm4 3y ago
I mean the other way around?
Living inside Emacs separates you from lots of "how everyone else does it" over time and is hard to integrate with "everything else" without TONS of work.
To avail yourself of the full power of Emacs, it demands more "difference from everything else?"
- orange-mentor 3y agoAs a newcomer to Emacs in the past couple of months (my second try), I think I agree with you that it's a lot of work. But for the Emacs fans who've had success, that work pays them back because they can bend the editor to an extremely bespoke workflow. I'm unsure if it will work out for me long term but I can sort of see the appeal. No other tool even attempts to be what Emacs has become. So yeah, it's different from every other approach I've tried. But there's a chance it will work for me. Jury's out, though, and I am only now realizing that I'm going to have to put more effort into hacking my workflow than with other things I've used (Kakoune, Neovim, sublime, etc)
- lycopodiopsida 3y agoI've been on both sides: emacs only and fish + cli toolig + neovim and there is certainly no "everyone" on the console side. "Everyone" lives in VSCode. People using console tooling do not invest less time into it compared to emacs folks and each setup is no less individual than an init.el
- jrm4 3y agoSo, the "side" I mentioned here, I literally mean "ANYTHING not Emacs." Everything else you mentioned, even the neovims et al, do a far better job of "playing nicely with everything else" than Emacs.
- dbalatero 3y agoI had a real "I wish magit was a TUI program and embeddable in Neovim, Emacs, your tmux sidepane" moment the other day.