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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF on Sunday January 17, 2021 @11:47AM (#25812207)
Compared to many I am a relatively new emacs user, back when I began programming I let myself get intimidated by the scary stories told about Emacs and Vim configuration. Turns out a huge emacs configuration is not needed, in fact I notice my emacs config actually started to become smaller over the recent times. It's hard to express how much I value emacs now and the only regret I have is that I did not give it a chance earlier when I still exclusively used "modern" editors and IDEs.

Another aspect I see rarely mentioned is the emacs evil[1], it basicelly provides a full vi layer, it's much more than your average "vi keybindings" plugin. Emacs vs Vim? Not a question I have to give any thought when I can use both and switch between them without much effort.

[1]: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil

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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by omaranto on Sunday January 17, 2021 @11:51AM (#25812247)
Evil is rarely mentioned? I guess we hang out in different parts of the internet.
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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:10AM (#25818728)
Compared to the uncountable amount of "Emacs vs. Vim" discussions? Yes, absolutely. And when someone talks about getting a vim workflow in emacs they likely only mention a big framework like Spacemacs...
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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by omaranto on Monday January 18, 2021 @03:48PM (#25826454)
Oh, maybe my brain counts every mention of Spacemacs or Doom as an implicit mention of Evil.
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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by monadic3 on Sunday January 17, 2021 @12:47PM (#25812888)
I'm a little suprised they didn't mention DOOM or Spacemacs.
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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by jackcviers3 on Sunday January 17, 2021 @01:16PM (#25813221)
Yeah, mine is like 500 lines with use-package and lsp-mode. And it works on Mac osx, windows, and Linux, works with Java, scala, typescript/Javascript, python, yaml,c#, xml, html, haskell, ruby, c, and c++. Haven't done any Android or ios work, but I'm sure it would work with that as well.
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