Two Years of Emacs Solo: 35 Modules, Zero External Packages, and a Full Refactor

Re:Two Years of Emacs Solo: 35 Modules, Zero External Packag... by obezyian on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @09:01AM (#47322704)

> Disabling C-z (suspend) because accidentally suspending Emacs in a terminal is never fun

This reminds me of a story from a past job. I have to get it out of my system.

There was this bearded sysadmin guy who was very proud of his "15 years of experience", and was quick to scold us new employees for every little thing he could.

He used vim, and every now and then would say that it's a good editor, but kinda "unstable". Crashed a lot, he said.

You probably know where this is going.

One day, one of us sat next to him and discovered many suspended vim jobs in his shell (this was the kind of guy that doesn't power off his computer).

He was fat-fingering C-z all the time, and has never heard of job control - bg, fg, etc.

15 years of experience.

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Re:Two Years of Emacs Solo: 35 Modules, Zero External Packag... by dsr_ on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @10:53AM (#47324097)

Sometimes it's 15 repetitions of one year.

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Re:Two Years of Emacs Solo: 35 Modules, Zero External Packag... by raverbashing on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @12:24PM (#47325393)

Interesting story, but I'm surprised the OP would disable Cmd-z because that is used all the time with vim

I know you might prefer to run a shell on emacs (or vim) but something only the full terminal can do what you need it to do

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Re:Two Years of Emacs Solo: 35 Modules, Zero External Packag... by MonkeyClub on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @09:38AM (#47335439)

> but something only the full terminal can do what you need it to do

There's always `M-x term` for a full terminal.

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