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Just switched from MacVim to Emacs as my main text editor. Org-mode is very powerful for outlines and tasks. For a while I stayed with Vim because it's lighter
by fsiefken 14y ago
Just switched from MacVim to Emacs as my main text editor. Org-mode is very powerful for outlines and tasks. For a while I stayed with Vim because it's lighter on system resources, there are nice plugins like a lightweight Org-mode clone and VimWiki... and it's hot in the Ruby/Rails community.
But the 60 or so MB for Emacs is lightweight compared to mobile and desktop standards now and has features that blow any editor out of the water. No reason to stay with Vim (except on iPad). Reportedly Emacs also runs on Android... so with Evil mode and Emacs I keep all my Vi bindings and have the best of all worlds: calculator, calendar, planning, games, integrated browser, emacsspeak screenreader etc. The only thing I miss is a nice Cocoa file tree browser next to the GnuEmacs editor window.
- fein 14y ago>nice Cocoa file tree browser next to the GnuEmacs editor window Have you tried M-x speedbar?
- fsiefken 14y agoHi Fein, thanks for the tip. I noticed the speedbar tree, and it's adequate.. but I'd rather like a nice Cocoa tree like in Alloy's MacVim port https://github.com/alloy/macvim/wiki/Screenshots https://github.com/alloy/macvim/wiki/Screenshots instead of a NERDtree like speedbar.
- fein 14y agoAhh, then what you want is ECB. http://ecb.sourceforge.net/ http://ecb.sourceforge.net/ and a screenie: http://kasun04.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/emacs1.jpg http://kasun04.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/emacs1.jpg