I was a vi person, then I tried Emacs, then I went full-Emacs (even for email, and sometimes Web), and released some of my extensions.[1]
Then I decided to try to be in less of an Emacs OS, and intentionally moved things like email out of it, even though the non-Emacs stuff in some ways didn't work as well.
Lately, I've been moving some new things to Emacs, like calendar/todo, and it's much more effective than the GUI tools I had going for that. I'm tempted to move email back, as well (but will probably write a new MUA instead, in Rust or Scheme).
How does it treat people with rsi? Out of hopes of avoiding rsi, I was considering choosing vim over emacs
Re:The Emacs Problem (2005)
by emptysongglass on Monday August 19, 2019 @02:19AM
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I’d suggest dealing with the issue further back, at the hardware level, with an ergonomic keyboard. Get one with “thumb-islands” and you’re set!
Check out spacemacs
There's a certain elegance to emacs that takes a while to get used to but when you do, it just transforms the way you do most things on your computer. Just goes on to show RMS's genius.