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Re:Emacs' org-mode gets citation support by mbrumlow on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:45PM (#28079518)
> My desktop editor of choice is not and likely never will be emacs

That is a shame. Why?

Re:Emacs' org-mode gets citation support by reificator on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:52PM (#28079624)
I hesitate to answer because I sense an editor war incoming, but I'm going to assume your question was in earnest and not evangelical or judgemental.

Also to be clear, because I know people can be touchy about editor preferences: I say this only as an analogy for the feeling I get, not as an analogy for users who use emacs or other tools.

For whatever reason emacs just feels like I'm using left-handed scissors, and I'm not left handed.

It doesn't mean I don't think people should use emacs, it just doesn't feel right in my hands.

Re:Emacs' org-mode gets citation support by sokoloff on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:33PM (#28080203)
Nothing wrong with using emacs for just org-mode if you want to use more of the interactive features. You give up something vs someone who’s “all in” on emacs, but it’s workable.

I’m teaching my son to code and we use emacs only for magit. He may get more and more exposure down the road, but for now that’s enough to justify what little bare minimum learning curve is needed to get a great git porcelain.

Re:Emacs' org-mode gets citation support by hirvi74 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @09:32PM (#28082285)
> It doesn't mean I don't think people should use emacs, it just doesn't feel right in my hands.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with your opinion. Do you like to tinker with things in general? That is a common personality trait that I have seen amongst many of fellow Emacs users. I enjoy tinkering with all kinds of things, so Emacs fits my personality well.

Though, sometimes it's easy to get distracted tinkering instead of actually doing productive work (for me, at least). I still say that my Emacs config has been my single longest running "project."

Re:Emacs' org-mode gets citation support by GongOfFour on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:47PM (#28080390)
No OP but I personally prefer the simplicity of VS Code's diff and conflict resolution point-and-click tooling to using ediff/smerge. I also work in a project with some very deep directory structures and like the VS Code sidebar much more.
Re:Emacs' org-mode gets citation support by totetsu on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:42PM (#28080327)
I want to use org at work but the performace of emacs on windows is beyond unusable. also copy paste just doesn't work without pulling teath. its such a dissapointment.
Re:Emacs' org-mode gets citation support by alex_smart on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:58PM (#28080510)
I have been using emacs on windows for years. The only thing that is unusably slow for me is magit.

>also copy paste just doesn't work without pulling teath.

What do you mean?