The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla

Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by dleslie on Sunday January 17, 2021 @02:45PM (#25814183)

I'm going to give Doom a shot; I ignored Spacemacs because rebinding native keys and forcing evil-mode was a nonstarter for me. If I wanted to use Vim then I would, and did for a time.

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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by dleslie on Sunday January 17, 2021 @03:19PM (#25814517)

... and that was an immediately disappointing experience.

1. Saving customizations didn't work.

2. Launching Emacs as a client that auto-launches a server _always_ failed the first time.

3. I really don't need a custom package manager built on top of another custom package manager to replace the core package manager. straight.el would've been enough, thanks.

4. My batteries-included Emacs launches a server in a few seconds, a client almost instantaneously; doom took minutes to launch a server on my Pinebook Pro and clients took a few seconds.

5. Another needless dotfile dir in my home. ~/.doom.d could easily have been ~/.emacs.d/doom.d

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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by kenbolton on Sunday January 17, 2021 @05:29PM (#25815855)

"forcing evil-mode"?! Spacemacs asks if you want to use "evil", "holy", or "hybrid" mode early in the process.

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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by dleslie on Sunday January 17, 2021 @05:44PM (#25816008)

Interesting, I suppose I missed that when skimming the GitHub repo readme.

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