Re:My IDE is too heavy so I moved to Emacs
by mgaunard on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @07:18AM
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Too many windows, panes, misfeatures I don't want, and it's also quite slow.
It's a kitchen sink even before you install any plugins, and yet all the useful functionality requires plugins.
All I want is a text editor that can quickly switch to another file, that doesn't make it annoying when the file it had open was changed, that only adds the input that I type to a file and nothing else.
Also easy integration with commandline tools (select text, pass that as stdin to a command, replace it with stdout, all done trivially without going through a billion menus and plugins), vertical selection and multi-cursor that doesn't suck, maybe a few other details, are things where it failed to deliver.
What were your blockers to moving to VSCode? My remaining issue is to be able to css style any element of the UI like I could with Atom. There're plugins that let you monkey patch to get that feature, but updates to VSCode break them.