Three HUGE Mistakes New Emacs Users Make DistroTube
video description
Date: 2022-03-30
Related videos
Comments and reviews: 10
Frank
I do all my programming in -nw on normal emacs. Keeps me thinking and not playing with font size, or face, and keeps the resulting text as real, compiler text. I launch emacs code.f90 to edit the file from a bash prompt in the dir to compile with when I suspend emacs. As for daemon mode? Not a chance. Also if you're gonna run emacs, why the vi commands? Emacs commands are useful enough. Like cont-x tab left or right to change indenting on a region.. Is there a vi command for that? It just sounds like you're really reaching to do things no person does...
reply
I do all my programming in -nw on normal emacs. Keeps me thinking and not playing with font size, or face, and keeps the resulting text as real, compiler text. I launch emacs code.f90 to edit the file from a bash prompt in the dir to compile with when I suspend emacs. As for daemon mode? Not a chance. Also if you're gonna run emacs, why the vi commands? Emacs commands are useful enough. Like cont-x tab left or right to change indenting on a region.. Is there a vi command for that? It just sounds like you're really reaching to do things no person does...
reply
James
I had not heard of starting emacs daemon before. GUI emacs opens just fine without starting the daemon first. I guess the daemon opens when emacs is launched? Either way, if you launch daemon first then the client it will take about the same time, I assume. I am way used to GNU emacs now but may try Doom at some point. I am a happy bunny with the way emacs runs on my setup and always expanding the knowledge and packages. Thank-you DT
reply
I had not heard of starting emacs daemon before. GUI emacs opens just fine without starting the daemon first. I guess the daemon opens when emacs is launched? Either way, if you launch daemon first then the client it will take about the same time, I assume. I am way used to GNU emacs now but may try Doom at some point. I am a happy bunny with the way emacs runs on my setup and always expanding the knowledge and packages. Thank-you DT
reply
Nauman
I was a vim user for quite some time but learned about doom emacs from DT when you started posting about it about a year ago. Had a rough start but now that I've got the hang of it It's awesome. Your videos were really helpful then to get me started and now I rarely use anything else. Everything except browsing and media is now emacs for me and rarely use terminal as well. Emacs (Doom) fulfills like 80% of my workstation needs
reply
I was a vim user for quite some time but learned about doom emacs from DT when you started posting about it about a year ago. Had a rough start but now that I've got the hang of it It's awesome. Your videos were really helpful then to get me started and now I rarely use anything else. Everything except browsing and media is now emacs for me and rarely use terminal as well. Emacs (Doom) fulfills like 80% of my workstation needs
reply
Aleksandr
Hello, DT, thanks for your videos!
Despite of you uploaded video explaining why emacs isn't bloated, i still think it takes too much responsibilities inside itself.
I think that tmux+pure vim/kakoune fits into unix philosophy a bit better (btw, thanks for kakoune video)
Emacs is good, but it's really os inside os, and when you using it means you not using all good alternatives
reply
Hello, DT, thanks for your videos!
Despite of you uploaded video explaining why emacs isn't bloated, i still think it takes too much responsibilities inside itself.
I think that tmux+pure vim/kakoune fits into unix philosophy a bit better (btw, thanks for kakoune video)
Emacs is good, but it's really os inside os, and when you using it means you not using all good alternatives
reply
Jacky
I tried to use emacs daemon while using EXWM, it always results in a weird font displaying issue. When you are using EXWM, there is no need to start the daemon first just by the nature. If you really want to have to daemon running in the background, put (start-server) in your init.el. This is a special use case where starting Emacs as a client/daemon program leads to a worse experience.
reply
I tried to use emacs daemon while using EXWM, it always results in a weird font displaying issue. When you are using EXWM, there is no need to start the daemon first just by the nature. If you really want to have to daemon running in the background, put (start-server) in your init.el. This is a special use case where starting Emacs as a client/daemon program leads to a worse experience.
reply
mohammed
Thanks DT,
I was doing it wrong the past three days since I was doing emacs from the terminal and I was really surprised that several things was not working well.
I-m a vim user trying doom emacs for the first time and found org mode to be mind blowing feature that I started using straight away, slowly working my way to other emacs features -
reply
Thanks DT,
I was doing it wrong the past three days since I was doing emacs from the terminal and I was really surprised that several things was not working well.
I-m a vim user trying doom emacs for the first time and found org mode to be mind blowing feature that I started using straight away, slowly working my way to other emacs features -
reply
ENNO116
alright dt, but HOW DO I SET UP A JAVA DEVELOPMENT EVIRONMENT IN EMACS???? I am new to emacs and doom emacs, I tried the (java +meghanada) and didn't like it so I wanted to set up java +lsp but my god is it confusing when normal documentation for how to set it up is for vanilla emacs and so the confusion is real when you want to do for doom emacs...
reply
alright dt, but HOW DO I SET UP A JAVA DEVELOPMENT EVIRONMENT IN EMACS???? I am new to emacs and doom emacs, I tried the (java +meghanada) and didn't like it so I wanted to set up java +lsp but my god is it confusing when normal documentation for how to set it up is for vanilla emacs and so the confusion is real when you want to do for doom emacs...
reply
Clnr0n05
In all fairness, emacsclient has it's issues. I can't tell you how many times I've tried to use the daemon mode just to have it wind up unable to exit cleanly does to recentf not responding, delaying my system's shutdown by 90s. This is much longer than just the time it takes to start up a fresh emacs session multiple times in the day.
reply
In all fairness, emacsclient has it's issues. I can't tell you how many times I've tried to use the daemon mode just to have it wind up unable to exit cleanly does to recentf not responding, delaying my system's shutdown by 90s. This is much longer than just the time it takes to start up a fresh emacs session multiple times in the day.
reply
Amirhossein
Thanks DT! After 6 months of Emacs usage, I reached the same conclusion that first impression of Emacs is not doing it justice. It's like opening up xmonad, and tinkering with it for 10 minutes, and decide that it cannot do much. It just doesn't make any sense.
reply
Thanks DT! After 6 months of Emacs usage, I reached the same conclusion that first impression of Emacs is not doing it justice. It's like opening up xmonad, and tinkering with it for 10 minutes, and decide that it cannot do much. It just doesn't make any sense.
reply
seocamo
emacs is so so slow, the lisp scripts is real slow, so they try to fix this with caching ...aka server/client... all in emacs is a workaround that it is slow.
if you look that the speed of lua in nvim or vim9 in vim ... emacs is lightyears away....
reply
emacs is so so slow, the lisp scripts is real slow, so they try to fix this with caching ...aka server/client... all in emacs is a workaround that it is slow.
if you look that the speed of lua in nvim or vim9 in vim ... emacs is lightyears away....
reply
Add a review, comment
Other channel videos
