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Re:Emacs 26.1 released by rdtsc on Monday May 28, 2018 @02:18PM (#17173899)
I was wondering that too. However it ended up having the best highlighting and indenting packages for the languages I was using. It was available on most platforms and most of all worked in an SSH session.

I wouldn't try to learn everything at once would just learn:

1) How to quit 2) How to save a file 3) Basic navigation: up, down, left, right, end of line, beginning of line 4) How to cut a line, and how to paste a line

Some of those you might already know from using bash or even basic text editing on macOS.

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Re:Emacs 26.1 released by dkns on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @05:41AM (#17177713)
I tried giving Emacs a shot again recently because I now use windows at work and it's easier to get Emacs working on windows with all the features rather than trying to get vim/neovim with myriad of different outside plugins.

But I won't be switching simply because indentation in html/css/js files is off and apparently Emacs is bad at handling stuff like jsx and web stuff in general. Shame.

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Re:Emacs 26.1 released by dsevil on Monday June 04, 2018 @08:02PM (#17233809)
Install the web-mode package. It handles a lot of modern web stuff pretty well.
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