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I have attempted it and couldn't make it work. Maybe i lacked the grit, and patience, or maybe emacs is not meant for beginners or windows. However, there is a
by rk06 1y ago
I have attempted it and couldn't make it work.
Maybe i lacked the grit, and patience, or maybe emacs is not meant for beginners or windows. However, there is a need for docs on how to move from vscode to emacs.
- herewulf 1y agoDid you try an Emacs distribution like Doom Emacs or Space Emacs? Or did you try vanilla Emacs? The latter is not going to give you a very good IDE type experience without said grit, etc, so I recommend the former. Also, there are lots of ways to run on Windows other than native such as WSL, Linux VM, Docker, etc. Though I ran the Portacle distribution quite successfully on native Windows once (when it was my only choice).
- rk06 1y agoI tried standard emacs and space emacs. What tripped me most was keybindings(ctrl c doesn't work!?) and lack of command prompt (no idea if it didn't exist or needed plugins) There were few more pain points of "thinking in buffer" instead of files. All I can say is that entire experience made me appreciate the OOB experience of vscode.
- pjmlp 1y agoBack in the day XEmacs used to have great Windows support, I dunno about standard Emacs.