Emfy: Emacs for You – Quickly set up vanilla Emacs for editing

Re:Emfy: Emacs for You – Quickly set up vanilla Emacs for ed... by karlicoss on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @01:11PM (#29727702)

Check out evil mode [0] which brings vim keybindings/modes into Emacs, so you will have easier time checking out emacs and making your own opinion. I still use both, vim for quick edits/on the systems where I don't have an emacs config.

For me the reason to prefer Emacs would be its extensibility and ability to modify pretty much any behaviour. I'm no fan of elisp, but it's much more reasonable than vimscript.

[0] https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil#readme

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Re:Emfy: Emacs for You – Quickly set up vanilla Emacs for ed... by rg111 on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @04:44PM (#29730451)

This sounds really interesting. So, even if someone chooses to migrate to Emacs, they can still be in-practice with vim. So, when they need to work on someone else's computer or SSH into a server, they will still not lose any efficiency.

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Re:Emfy: Emacs for You – Quickly set up vanilla Emacs for ed... by ABahajaj on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @09:44PM (#29732933)

I moved from vim to emacs using emacs doom. Which is a configuration of emacs that makes it feel a lot like vim. Its a good place for vimmers to start imo.

https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

However, its a good idea to stop using emacs doom at some point and get your hands dirty with configuring emacs. This just makes the transition more gradual.

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Re:Emfy: Emacs for You – Quickly set up vanilla Emacs for ed... by zarkov99 on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @08:08PM (#29732280)

And that right there is the zen of emacs. You can vim inside emacs but you cannot emacs inside anything else...

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