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I used to be all about portability, too. Worse, I was worried that other people needed to be able to work on my computer. So no Vim or Emacs, and always keep th

I used to be all about portability, too. Worse, I was worried that other people needed to be able to work on my computer. So no Vim or Emacs, and always keep things simple. You know what? I don't care any more. My computer is my computer. It does not need to work for other people and I don't need to work on other people's computers much. My Emacs loads many plugins, my Visual Studio is using ViEmu, I replaced my Finder and I remapped some keys on the keyboard. This makes for a crazy confusing experience for anyone who sits down at my computer, but it works for me. And as far as compatibility is concerned, my Emacs init.el will automatically download and install all plugins it finds missing, so setting up a new computer is about as complex as copying one file.

boyter 14y ago
Its not so much about others as I don't want to spend 3 hours setting up e very machine I touch, ie servers, borrowed machine etc.... I'm just as productive now (after a month of adjustment) but without the setup time.
- irahul 14y ago
  > Its not so much about others as I don't want to spend 3 hours setting up e very machine I touch, Most of the configurations just need to be copied. Just copy your .vim folder and you are setup with everything. Copy your .screenrc and that's that. I sync my dotfiles and then run a small script to set symlinks. That hardly takes 2 minutes.
- JasonFruit 14y ago
  I carry Emacs in Linux and Windows versions, along with xmodmap scripts to make caps lock a control key and switch it back again, on a flash drive just for that reason --- then I have the necessities available on every machine I sit down in front of. Servers are a different story, but the ones I work with are all running Linux and have vi, which will do.
- xyzzyb 14y ago
  Setup time got you down? There are plethora of dotfiles projects on github that already have easy scripted installation. http://dotfiles.github.com/ http://dotfiles.github.com/
  - jedahan 14y ago
    Homesick is another good one https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick

boyter 14y ago

Its not so much about others as I don't want to spend 3 hours setting up e very machine I touch, ie servers, borrowed machine etc.... I'm just as productive now (after a month of adjustment) but without the setup time.

irahul 14y ago
> Its not so much about others as I don't want to spend 3 hours setting up e very machine I touch, Most of the configurations just need to be copied. Just copy your .vim folder and you are setup with everything. Copy your .screenrc and that's that. I sync my dotfiles and then run a small script to set symlinks. That hardly takes 2 minutes.
JasonFruit 14y ago
I carry Emacs in Linux and Windows versions, along with xmodmap scripts to make caps lock a control key and switch it back again, on a flash drive just for that reason --- then I have the necessities available on every machine I sit down in front of. Servers are a different story, but the ones I work with are all running Linux and have vi, which will do.
xyzzyb 14y ago
Setup time got you down? There are plethora of dotfiles projects on github that already have easy scripted installation. http://dotfiles.github.com/ http://dotfiles.github.com/
- jedahan 14y ago
  Homesick is another good one https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick