Sadly you have to use VSCode. The closest editor that’s come to replacing emacs for me is Zed. But still, zed hasn’t won me over because their git solution is still not as good as magit
I’m almost locked into emacs because of magit lol
I’m almost locked into emacs because of magit lol
I find when I use vscode that most features have an emacs equivalent.
Am I missing out on something in that set of “stuff I don’t know I don’t know”?
To me the biggest thing would be company politics. There's some companies that have a policy to use a certain editor (to share config and whatnot).
VS code (or whatever jetbrains thing) works well enough with almost no config where emacs works better with a lot more config. Worth it for some kinds of work but not others.
What's great about Emacs that I don't have to restart or even save anything - I can enable/disable things on the go, even installing and using lsp-servers. I typically experiment in my scratch buffer (it's persistent between the sessions), and when my experiments prove worthy adding to the config, I move them.
I have VSCode and I run it sometimes, often when I'm working with someone who doesn't use Emacs. It almost invariably requires more attention and inflicts more annoyance. it-just-works™ rarely feels working for me there.
But, I’ll never find a replacement, I’m forever trapped ((((()))))) send help