This doesn't make sense. You used to be someone easily distracted by yak shaving, is what it reads like.
Installing features in Emacs is not exactly tough, either. I do think you can get distracted by the sea of things you can install. Probably no different from the new toys in the realm.
Makes sense to me. I love both emacs and vim, but I agree there are too many yaks to be shaved to get them in a usable state.
I question the lack of shaving in the next application. Seems there is always something that could have been done a different way.
Re:Why GNU Emacs?
by noelsusman on Sunday February 14, 2016 @07:55PM
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The features just aren't there for me in Atom. I have a feeling they are if you're a web developer, but us non webdevs are left out in the cold (at least for now). Compare LaTeX and R in Atom to AUCTeX and ESS in Emacs and it's like night and day. Every time I switch to Atom I get frustrated within a day due to lack of features for the things I use.
pen and paper my friend. punched cards even.
Re:Why GNU Emacs?
by terminalcommand on Monday February 15, 2016 @01:53AM
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You might be interested in this amazing tutorial. It shows how to configure emacs to download packages from melpa.
It helped me a great deal, and since then I never looked back.
Hope we can convert you to the church of emacs :P
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxj9UAX4Em-IiOfvF2Qs7...
I use an approach similar to this [1] to automatically install missing packages on startup. This means that when I move to a new machine I just have to clone the repo with my emacs configuration to have everything ready, settings _and_ extra packages.
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10092322/how-to-automatic...
Re:Why GNU Emacs?
by my_coworker on Sunday February 14, 2016 @11:48PM
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You sound like my coworker. Kevin? Is that you?
How does atom work in a ptty?
Not everybody needs that. Even I as a sysadmin just use TRAMP from within my graphical Emacs to edit remote files and don't open Emacs in an SSH session over a terminal emulator.
Then, a passionate friend converted me to Vim. I only ever used it to do battle with my .vimrc. I never got any real work done.
Now, I use Atom. Click a button, install a feature. No more distractions.
I wish it were faster though; I can never get any real work done.