From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015)

Re:From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015) by maximilianroos on Thursday March 11, 2021 @05:15PM (#26429684)

For those who use Vim bindings, and would like to try out emacs, I'd suggest trying Spacemacs:

https://www.spacemacs.org/

It has "evil mode" by default — the vim bindings.

I picked this up at Jane Street, where much of the internal tooling is in emacs. I still use it wherever I can't get a good vscode setup, and it has some advantages over vscode.

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Re:From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015) by cwlb on Thursday March 11, 2021 @06:27PM (#26430362)

I picked up spacemacs earlier this year but have since switched to Doom emacs: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs it's smaller, faster, and you configure it in a way that's closer to vanilla emacs. The size makes it more tractable to learn. The creator & primary maintainer is more active, funny, and helpful than the spacemacs maintainer who I believe is on hiatus.

I wish someone had told Doom about it before I picked up spacemacs so maybe this post will benefit past-future-me.

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Re:From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015) by cutler on Friday March 12, 2021 @12:16AM (#26432424)

I've been using Spacemacs for Clojure development for years but stable has been stuck on the same version for ages so is it actually maintained?

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Re:From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015) by Graziano_M on Friday March 12, 2021 @08:35AM (#26435639)

You should switch to develop. They are working on release 300 and there are commits being merged daily.

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Re:From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015) by cutler on Sunday March 14, 2021 @11:34AM (#26456217)

It's been thaty way for years so not very encouraging. With develop I can't just click Update Packages. Any advantages these days of staying with Spacemacs over Doom?

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Re:From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015) by maximilianroos on Thursday March 11, 2021 @11:13PM (#26432141)

Thanks! It looks good. I'll check it out more.

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