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Reading between the lines, I don't think this article is about a particular way of using emacs. I think it's about the psychological safety that comes from usin
by brlewis 3y ago
Reading between the lines, I don't think this article is about a particular way of using emacs. I think it's about the psychological safety that comes from using a platform that won't pull the rug out from under you.
A lot of tools that are commonly depended on today will change on their own schedule. Nice ones will give you warning ahead of time that a change is coming, but you can't opt out of the change. APIs get deprecated. UIs get reorganized. There's not much you can do. With emacs there's an expectation that what worked for you 20 years ago will still work today. And in rare instances where that's not true, you can just not upgrade to a newer version of emacs.
Working in emacs definitely gives a feeling of control. If anything is ever going to replace emacs (or neovim, which I don't use but I understand is similar), it will have to give the same feelings of control, in addition to the same sense of focus that comes from an uncluttered UI.
- deltaburnt 3y agoI really enjoy using VSCode, it's highly configurable and ubiquitous. However, I do get concerned about handing so much control over my editor to Microsoft. While VSCode is ostensibly open source, forking it may become just as hard as forking Chromium.
- nalinidash 3y agoYou can try vscodium.com .According to their website, VSCodium is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VS Code.
- wt__ 3y agoI think it's kind of a combination - not having the tools pulled from under you, but also the device to device portability he mentions, and having all your content in text (or whatever) in a directory structure you control. And yes, it's exactly the same feeling when using Neovim, which has it's own web browser plugins. (He wrote the post in 2015. Wonder if he's still using Emacs now.)