Introduction to the Sam Text Editor

Re:Introduction to the Sam Text Editor by leephillips on Sunday December 26, 2021 @08:18AM (#29692165)

I’m a Vim user who finds the ideas and promise of Emacs intriguing. The reason I don’t switch is your comment about performance, which is echoed by everyone who has used both editors extensively. I’m in Vim all day. A performance hit would hurt. I need my editor to be fast.

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Re:Introduction to the Sam Text Editor by akagr on Monday December 27, 2021 @12:37AM (#29699691)

I'd recommend a batteries-included Emacs distro like Doom to try out. That way, you don't spend a lot of time customising the editor before getting invested.

Vanilla Emacs is plenty fast, but Doom will give you a closer to real world use case, with themes, LSP, Magit and other essentials built in.

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