I've decided to try Emacs.

Shadow Skill · Veteran Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 1023

Dunno what the big deal is Emacs has at least two terminal emulators built in. It even has a mode to kill buffers that have been open for a long time. There is even a hack floating around that embeds a webkit browser inside emacs.
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notageek · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 4:42 am Post subject:

Four pages later BK hasn't installed emacs yet. Nevermind even using it.

I'm going to report this thread and ask BK to be permabanned just for that.
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wildhorse · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 9:05 am Post subject: Re: I've decided to try Emacs.

Muso · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 11:27 am Post subject:

I prefer Emacs for large files. Emacs was an arbitrary choice of editors for me when I made the decision. I realized that I needed my fingers to "know" a proper editor, and Emacs was my choice. I've never understood the hate towards Emacs from the VI users, and vice versa. For small files, nano's fine.
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pjp · Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 5:26 am Post subject: Re: I've decided to try Emacs.

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BoneKracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1487 Location: U.S.A.

Ok I installed it, with all USE flags disabled for now. I kind of like it, although it may be more than I want in an editor. I'm trying to give it a fair shake and not just reject it because it's unfamiliar. It certainly has son nice features, and it's quite refined, as terminal applications go. I have just scratched the surface at this point.
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pjp · Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 5:41 pm Post subject:

I really disliked ctrl-2ndkey for everything. I think I gave it maybe 5 minutes.
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juniper · l33t Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 756 Location: EU

I think I said earlier why I switched from emacs to vim.

I forgot one other reason. They came out with new fonts about 15 years after everyone else. They were using Type 1 fonts until only a few years ago.

BoneKracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1487 Location: U.S.A.

After a few days of immersion, I have to say it's pretty awesome. This is no "editor", though; this is an IDE with a unique method and degree of integration.

The latest version has its own integrated package (i.e. extension) manager, and if you add a couple of popular repositories you have thousands of extensions to choose from, some of which are very cool. While I installed it stripped of all USE flags and am using it in a terminal emulator, my observation thus far is that it doesn't use much RAM, considering the package size (which bundles a lot of optional extensions, not loaded by default.

It's got the most complete, well-organized, and easily accessible documentation of any application I've used, which is important since the default configuration alone offers about 2,000 commands. It even has a vi-mode with adjustable level of vi emulation.

My take at this point is that Emacs would be far more useful than vim for serious, deeply-involved, time consuming project work, but it is probably overkill on overkill for others.

I have to say it's much nicer than I expected. Going to play around with it until I feel like I have a good idea of its pluses and minuses.
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smartass · Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 10:25 am Post subject:

Enlightenment, at last!

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