Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ...
by marco_craveiro on Sunday October 17, 2021 @07:59AM
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I think the biggest problem with Emacs is that you cannot really make sense of a lot of stuff until you start programming elisp in anger. I tried for many years to copy and paste snippets etc, but now I realised you just need to bite the bullet and learn it like any other programming language and be prepared to do "real development" in Emacs. Its very difficult to be a "tourist" in Emacs, IMHO, a lot of things just don't make sense until you became more of a elisp programmer.
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Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ...
by e3bc54b2 on Sunday October 17, 2021 @10:58AM
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> Its very difficult to be a "tourist" in Emacs
Exactly. Ironically, Emacs is also the place where transition from tourist to resident is the smoothest. You can stray writing and evaluating Elisp practically anywhere. (Almost) Everything is programmable via Elisp, everything is documented in excruciating detail, learning about any system attribute is two keychords away, there are debugging and profiling tools built in, and source code for very built in thing is available. If the target is to make average Joe into a programmer with least effort, things don't get much better than this.
Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ...
by laserlight on Sunday October 17, 2021 @10:40AM
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Couldn’t agree more. I used to get annoyed that I had to copy and paste code snippets that I found over the Web just to configure basic stuff. It got out of control pretty quickly. Now I understood that Emacs is supposed to be used by programming it. Turns out it was meant to be a feature, not a bug.