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Obviously with the right amount of time and patience you can configure Emacs well enough to be an extremely powerful editor. This screencast seems a little misl
by zzzmarcus 18y ago
Obviously with the right amount of time and patience you can configure Emacs well enough to be an extremely powerful editor. This screencast seems a little misleading though because it makes it look like like you get all that functionality 'out of the box.'
In my experience it took me at least a couple weeks of tinkering to get Emacs working well enough to replace most of the features I constantly use in TextMate.
- elq 18y agoI've spent about 90 hours tweaking my emacs config to get it working exactly how I like... over the past 10 years - it is now soo well tuned to how I work I could not even begin to imagine using another editor. I can understand how Emacs might not be right for others, but it is perfect for me.
- yason 18y agoEmacs is like programming. Spend a good ten years on it and you somehow can't fathom how you could solve (your textual) problems in any other way. Anything less and you just keep comparing it to other text editors which makes as much sense as comparing practicing programming to practicing medicine or law (or some other high-profile occupation) as all of them require lots of reading and having lots of knowledge.