Switching to GNU Emacs DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Claudisimooo
I'm honestly not trying to sound like a troll here but the reason that no one is -trying to make vim more emacs like- is because almost no one leaves emacs from vim, but a lot of vim users who try emacs don't come back. Since the learning curve is big for both editors things like evil-mode made sense, but I personally wouldn't call a -testament to vim- the fact that no one is trying (just my opinion). I'm not triyi
I personally wouldn't call a -testament to vim- the fact that no one is trying to -make vim more emacs like-, because the reason for that (and I'm HONESLTY NOT TRYING TO SOUND LIKE A TROLL HERE) is that very very few people leave emacs for vim, but the other way around happens more often (not like it's a common thing or anything, vim is a great text editor). Since the learning curve is big for both editors things like evil-mode made sense.
To try not to sound like a troll who's just en emacs fan boy I will say that modal editors are probably better to insert commands and to save your hands from future problems (I don't use evil mode or emacs with separate modes for inserting commands and text since I'm not a guy who can change habits easily, but if I could go back to the past I would tell miself to use emacs with evil mode and possibly change my keyboard distribution to dvorak).
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I'm honestly not trying to sound like a troll here but the reason that no one is -trying to make vim more emacs like- is because almost no one leaves emacs from vim, but a lot of vim users who try emacs don't come back. Since the learning curve is big for both editors things like evil-mode made sense, but I personally wouldn't call a -testament to vim- the fact that no one is trying (just my opinion). I'm not triyi
I personally wouldn't call a -testament to vim- the fact that no one is trying to -make vim more emacs like-, because the reason for that (and I'm HONESLTY NOT TRYING TO SOUND LIKE A TROLL HERE) is that very very few people leave emacs for vim, but the other way around happens more often (not like it's a common thing or anything, vim is a great text editor). Since the learning curve is big for both editors things like evil-mode made sense.
To try not to sound like a troll who's just en emacs fan boy I will say that modal editors are probably better to insert commands and to save your hands from future problems (I don't use evil mode or emacs with separate modes for inserting commands and text since I'm not a guy who can change habits easily, but if I could go back to the past I would tell miself to use emacs with evil mode and possibly change my keyboard distribution to dvorak).
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Jacob
I'm also currently checking out Emacs and hoping it will replace my Vim workflow.
Maybe I am just profoundly unlucky, but it seems like every plugin I set up for Vim has some kind of obscure dependencies or quirks making it incompatible with my system. Leading to everything I try to set up being accompanied by hours of troubleshooting, random plugins stopping to work, etc.
Most recently my LaTeX plugin/preview stopped working in between sessions of working on an important presentation. No system updates in between, no changes to the .tex file, no other packages installed... just decided to stop working.
Like I said, maybe I'm just profoundly unlucky.
I'm hoping Emacs will offer a more cohesive experience. It seems to be a more complete package out of the box and (almost) everything being based on e-lisp should help with dependencies and compatibility.
Vim will probably stay my text editor of choice, but I hope I'll be able to do most everything else in emacs. Also looking forward to learning lisp.
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I'm also currently checking out Emacs and hoping it will replace my Vim workflow.
Maybe I am just profoundly unlucky, but it seems like every plugin I set up for Vim has some kind of obscure dependencies or quirks making it incompatible with my system. Leading to everything I try to set up being accompanied by hours of troubleshooting, random plugins stopping to work, etc.
Most recently my LaTeX plugin/preview stopped working in between sessions of working on an important presentation. No system updates in between, no changes to the .tex file, no other packages installed... just decided to stop working.
Like I said, maybe I'm just profoundly unlucky.
I'm hoping Emacs will offer a more cohesive experience. It seems to be a more complete package out of the box and (almost) everything being based on e-lisp should help with dependencies and compatibility.
Vim will probably stay my text editor of choice, but I hope I'll be able to do most everything else in emacs. Also looking forward to learning lisp.
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Eclipse
Is Emacs mainly for programmers? Because it seems like a whole bunch of work to relearn how to do stuff that Linux Mint will just do for you anyway. Where are the efficiency gains? What if my brain is too tired when I get home after working on Windoze all day to remember all these bespoke commands and I just want to use a gorgeous looking Mint machine with a few other programs like email or project management software in Mint?
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Is Emacs mainly for programmers? Because it seems like a whole bunch of work to relearn how to do stuff that Linux Mint will just do for you anyway. Where are the efficiency gains? What if my brain is too tired when I get home after working on Windoze all day to remember all these bespoke commands and I just want to use a gorgeous looking Mint machine with a few other programs like email or project management software in Mint?
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Victor
00:00 Introduction
03:08 GNU Emacs web page overview
04:25 Launching Emacs for first time. Emacs out of the box
07:00 Opening a file
07:50 Changing theme
08:50 Adding line numbers
10:00 Remove graphical menu bar and tool bar
11:28 Adding Dracula Theme to Emacs
13:54 Split vertical window
15:35 Split horizontal window
16:00 Emacs file manager
18:15 Summary
20:30 Thanks Patreons
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00:00 Introduction
03:08 GNU Emacs web page overview
04:25 Launching Emacs for first time. Emacs out of the box
07:00 Opening a file
07:50 Changing theme
08:50 Adding line numbers
10:00 Remove graphical menu bar and tool bar
11:28 Adding Dracula Theme to Emacs
13:54 Split vertical window
15:35 Split horizontal window
16:00 Emacs file manager
18:15 Summary
20:30 Thanks Patreons
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True
Thank you for this one. I'm an old computer nerd/enthusiast and back in 1998 I took university courses in programming which made me love Emacs :)
I still do hobby programming and wanted to install Emacs again on my laptop since it's been too many years since I used Emacs :) Thank you again and all the best from Oslo, Norway
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Thank you for this one. I'm an old computer nerd/enthusiast and back in 1998 I took university courses in programming which made me love Emacs :)
I still do hobby programming and wanted to install Emacs again on my laptop since it's been too many years since I used Emacs :) Thank you again and all the best from Oslo, Norway
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Sean
Windows user here, looking at running a linux distro more seriously these days. Is this not something like Notepad++ ? One of the larger concerns I have with moving over to linux vs windows is the loss or hassle of use for things like Office 365 given the extreme prevelance of use within most professional industries.
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Windows user here, looking at running a linux distro more seriously these days. Is this not something like Notepad++ ? One of the larger concerns I have with moving over to linux vs windows is the loss or hassle of use for things like Office 365 given the extreme prevelance of use within most professional industries.
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Anders
Late to the party, but you should probably use emacsclient(1) in your dmenu menues. It connects to a emacs that is already running and you get search in all the buffers, new and old. Which you not going to have if you start a brand new Emacs each time. (like M-/ command).
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Late to the party, but you should probably use emacsclient(1) in your dmenu menues. It connects to a emacs that is already running and you get search in all the buffers, new and old. Which you not going to have if you start a brand new Emacs each time. (like M-/ command).
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max
Hi I am currently at the point where I must decide If I start learning vim (which I currently use for changing files but not for real coding) or if I Change to Emacs and learn Emacs so I want to ask which one you can recommend to me
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Hi I am currently at the point where I must decide If I start learning vim (which I currently use for changing files but not for real coding) or if I Change to Emacs and learn Emacs so I want to ask which one you can recommend to me
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Panacea
Funny, watching this today and you mentioned that it might take you years to become an -Emacs Guru-. Looks like in less than a year you're almost there. :)
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Funny, watching this today and you mentioned that it might take you years to become an -Emacs Guru-. Looks like in less than a year you're almost there. :)
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-iga
Vim was great visually and in terms of keycommands, but it's syntax highlighting is horrible! This is the only reason I started looking at emacs...
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Vim was great visually and in terms of keycommands, but it's syntax highlighting is horrible! This is the only reason I started looking at emacs...
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