Unix as a tool forge (and how Emacs fits in Unix philosophy)

Re:Unix as a tool forge (and how Emacs fits in Unix philosophy) by comfypotato on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @03:36PM (#33523956)

Picking eMacs up as a replacement for VSCode while having to get stuff done is risky. I would venture to say that it’s not realistic as far as your conceptualization. I say this because you venture to ask if the setup process is similar. The answer is a resounding no. VSCode is incredibly easy to “get productive” and eMacs is on the other end of the spectrum.

That being said, if you can work some time into your schedule to learn eMacs, your goal can be realized. (Also, it’s totally worth it.) I was a VSCode user and made some time to learn eMacs exclusively for org mode (possibly eMacs’s coolest feature). Once I was comfortable, I just played around with a dev environment in eMacs (for fun) and loved it so much that I left VSCode.

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Re:Unix as a tool forge (and how Emacs fits in Unix philosophy) by ok_dad on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @03:52PM (#33524135)

Thanks for a realistic view! I'm trying out Doom Emacs, per another user's suggestion, and I'm going to try it out for non-code text editing for a while, since I do a lot of that still anyways.

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Re:Unix as a tool forge (and how Emacs fits in Unix philosophy) by comfypotato on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @05:15PM (#33525072)

That sounds like a great approach!

I think some of the magic stems from ubiquitous conventions regarding bindings throughout eMacs. If you use evil mode, the conventions become a little murkier. I’d recommend sticking with the vanilla bindings (I haven’t used Doom, so I’m not actually sure if evil mode is default). This is just my two cents. Doom will be a great introduction either way.

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Re:Unix as a tool forge (and how Emacs fits in Unix philosophy) by Siira on Thursday November 10, 2022 @07:13PM (#33555618)

I think this is a solid approach.

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