> "It's terrible using this system. I must use four editors each day to get my studies done, because not one of them does everything."
The apprentice has yet to learn Emacs. Once mastered, Emacs becomes the system.
The apprentice has yet to learn Emacs. Once mastered, Emacs becomes the system.
I have heard much about this editor, about its supposed war with Vim, and yet after twelve years in the IT world doing both support and software dev, I have yet to see anyone use Emacs in the wild. Not even ironically.
2. Vim 8 added async support which, IMO was the "killer feature" of neovim. Built-in LSP is nice I guess, but LSP is often a bit of a pain to integrate with my workflow, and when I do, ALE (which I already use for linting) has me covered.
3. For more modern takes on modal editors, kakoune was by far my favorite; Helix had an impedance mismatch with how I edit text[A]
4. Lastly, vim and evil-mode are so similar that if/when I'm stuck in vim on a remote terminal, my muscle memory works great. With my configuration, literally the only difference (modulo C-z, which is the emacs escape-hatch) is case-matching replacement with "/" which evil-mode does and vim does not.
A: Though I must say thath when I brought them up to the community at the time, they seemed very open to addressing these issues; I had only positive interactions with the Helix community; people were super polite and nobody tried to YX problem me, which is unheard of in an IRC channel.
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By contrast, there are roughly 27M software developers in the world. Suppose 30-50% of them primarily use a vi-derived editor.
These factors and others make emacs a seemingly rare bird to spot in the wild when it's there.
Editors and tools, always use what improves the productivity of your team and you.
Now I stay because lsp makes it good for every language and then org mode and tramp and babel and eshell are just game changers.
I don't see too many emacs users. My old director at Walmart Peter was one iirc.
Eventually since moving into managed languages, alongside the uptake of Eclipse, Netbeans, KDevelop, QtCreator, JetBrains products,... I stop using it as my default UNIX editor.
However still install it, just in case, too much muscle memory regarding meta commands and elisp.
Edit: I intended to make a quip about systemd being orthogonal to UNIX philosophy, and how churn novelty and platform-specific idiosyncrasies break the contract of robust, portable, stable compatibility, but I'll be over here mumbling to myself in the corner instead.