Hacker News Reader

Comment by mziulu | Hacker News Reader

You might have something to gain by switching to Emacs. AFAIK of the 9 elements of your list at least 6 can be easily done inside emacs. I leave out web browsing (it can be done but yeah, leaves a lot to be desired imho), Android development (ADT is really really good) and maybe "document ordering", which, depending on what it exactly is, might be done with org-mode.

View on HN

'document ordering' is mostly gathering and organising PDFs, web links, and snippets of text.

One of these days I might give emacs another go. Last time I had a look for 'quick start' emacs setups (about 3 months ago), the most recent ones I found seemed to be telling me to install the development version of emacs 24, which I couldn't even get to compile.

One of the really cool thing about emacs is that you can do so much in it. Everything from listening to music to browsing the web.

Unfortunately it lacks a decent text editor.

I've just been playing around with Evil-mode, an new Vim emulation mode (I've previously tried viper and vimpulse) and am finding it fairly enjoyable. I haven't pushed it really hard yet, and to be fair I could still see switching back to Vim for some things (like navigating code with ctags for example). But for things where I want to be in Emacs but hey it would be cool for this buffer to have vi key bindings, I think I like it quite well. (Enough so that I'm daydreaming about trying to contribute code to it once I understand it better).

Reply on news.ycombinator.com