Re:2024-01-01 Emacs News
by MountainMan1312 on Saturday January 06, 2024 @02:03PM
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How do you avoid horrible default configurations if not in your init.el?
What are the horrible defaults that you find the most problematic? I've found that the default keys for e.g. movement, saving, loafing etc are very productive, and are at worst not much different in efficiency etc. than any other set of choices you could pick.
I find if pressed, most people can't come up with anything excepting that Windows, Mac OS, and the various window managers all chose poorly when it comes to cut / copy / paste and the fact that emacs uses C-w, M-w,and C-y instead is just too mind blowing for them to comprehend.
Re:2024-01-01 Emacs News
by MountainMan1312 on Sunday January 07, 2024 @06:06PM
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The movement keys are the best example of horrible defaults. They're all over the place. There are several good options, but my setup uses IJKL for arrow keys, and a bunch of other movement-related keybinds on IJKL and surrounding keys. That's just one example.
I've now used Emacs for 30 year. The only people who have large configs for basic text editing are people who don't understand the first thing about Emacs.
Emacs is not a text editor. It is an elisp environment focused on text manipulation.
For some reason these people are extremely loud and have a lot of blogs.
The only parts of my init.el which aren't stock are those used to setup speciality packages like the tui for connecting to the prod database.
The rest of my code is in packages which do something useful. E.g. local llm integration.