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Here's the setup I like to use. A little complicated for some but I really like it:

* Window manager: emacs

* File manager: emacs

* Documents/Presentation: emacs + latex mode

* PDF viewer: emacs

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Emacs is actually a surprisingly good file manager. Dired + Ivy + knowing a few obscure shortcuts, and it's significantly simpler, faster and safer than either using Finder or Terminal.

I've recently dusted off Emacs again after a few years of VS Code, indenting to use it for some JavaScript/TypeScript client work. If anyone's interested, here's my Emacs setup. If you temporarily move ~/.emacs.d and clone this there, and open Emacs, it'll setup the rest for you. (Although it's a bit bare-bones so it presumes you're already familiar with reading Emacs config files and figuring out how to use it.)

https://github.com/sdegutis/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/in...

Fun dired trick: dired is essentially a styled, read-only output of `ls`, but you can use standard Emacs combination for switching buffer from/to read-only mode, C-x C-q. Once you've done that, you can literally edit the output of ls (or most of it) to make it reflect the desired state, and then press C-c C-c to commit, and dired will apply the changes.

I use it almost daily, it's particularly useful for batch renaming files - and since you're working with an editable text buffer, you can use whatever tools you like - like copy-paste, regex search&replace, multiple cursors, etc.

It's also smart enough to know to use a temporary intermediate filename when you rename multiple files to use each other's names, e.g. swapping a.txt and b.txt.

* Spreadsheet: emacs (M-x org-mode or M-x ses-mode)

* Calculator: emacs (M-x calc)

* Mail reader: emacs (M-x gnus)

* Programming IDE and debugger: emacs

* Terminal: emacs (M-x shell, M-x eshell, or M-x ansi-term)

I tried emacs for about a week, but ended up just going back to vim because I'm comfortable with it.

However - over the years, I've realized that its not vim that I want, its really vim keybindings that I want. I have them built into pretty much everything (file manager, browsers, PDF navigation, etc). I like the workflow.

Can you recommend any good 'vim to emacs' conversion guides that keep the same vim keybinding workflow?

Give Doom Emacs [0] a try. Lighter than Spacemacs.

[0]: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

Install evil-mode and evil-collection. I use general.el to configure a leader key and make my a personalized, stripped-down spacemacs. It's heaven.

https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil-collection https://github.com/noctuid/general.el

I haven't used it but I hear that vim people like the EVIL package.

Try Spacemacs

But what do you use for a text editor?

Emacs + evil-mode of course, the best of two worlds.

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