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What I tell my programming friends is that if you can see yourself molding your computer user-interface as sort of a hobby, then emacs is most definately for you.

If you don't see that as a fun past-time activity, then I would not recommend emacs.

For instance, (in my emacs email client) I just made a change where if I want to search the subject I am looking at, and it has a #XXX in it, then the subject search is just that number. Makes me able to quickly load up all emails related to that ticket. This makes me happy.

Also: same keyboard interface to everything.

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> Makes me able to quickly load up all emails related to that ticket. This makes me happy.

Yes, I love this.

Relatedly emacs is good if you find small annoyances or imperfections hard to "just deal with" and have the time and skill to customize or "craft" your emacs.

> Also: same keyboard interface to everything.

I still have to look up how to add hooks (decades into using Emacs as my primary editor).

But using the same shortcuts in every readline prompt is just so comforting.

> [...] if you can see yourself molding your computer user-interface as sort of a hobby, then emacs is most definately for you.

> If you don't see that as a fun past-time activity, then I would not recommend emacs.

If you don't see that as a fun past-time activity and still want to use emacs, then I would recommend spacemacs.

And if you find yourself between the two extremes, perhaps https://github.com/SystemCrafters/crafted-emacs

As a guy that has used both spacemacs and doom emacs (which I would recommend over spacemacs), I disagree - you still will be mucking around with things. Emacs out-of-the-box 2022 leaves a lot to be desired, configurations makes it easier, but it is still not the vscode experience, even though it helps you a LOT on the way.

which email client do you use?

I use mu4e. As an example, the code for the subject thing is here https://github.com/bergheim/dotfiles/blob/025b8e6c9730f09fe1...

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