Evil Mode: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Emacs

TL;DR: Watch this video: the stated reasons for switching are very similar to my own. It wasn't until I watched this video and read the book that I took the plunge to switch to emacs. It was the fact that with emacs I could have vim _plus_ much more and better functionality. ▶ this video I'll have to write a blog post about it sometime, but basically while I absolutely _love_ the vim 'editing interface', that is, not the GUI, but the modal editing, the bindings, motions, objects, relative line numbers, and so on, everything else aside from that, primarily plugins, always felt like ad-hoc hacks to me. I've contributed to a couple of vim plugins so I've seen it first hand, to the point where plugin authors I've worked with have expressed feelings of wanting to switch to emacs to just make things easier. Indeed, some have, such as the vim-airline author [ [link] ]. Whereas plugins in vim oftentimes gave me the impression that they were stopgaps and hacky workarounds to get vim to do something it wasn't meant to do, emacs packages feel very natural, comprehensive, and well designed. Just take this article for example. As awesome as vim-fugitive is for vim, I feel that it's good _for being a vim plugin_, but it has _nothing_ on the equivalent on emacs: magit. Take a look at it's comprehensive documentation: [link] Or flycheck's [ [link] ] documentation here [ [link] ] It seems like everyone puts up with everything else about vim just to have the good parts of vim that are generally ver

in “What's new in Magit 2.x” · View on HN

"Evil Mode: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Emacs" by Aaron Bieber is an interesting talk on switching from vim to emacs + org-mode. ▶ this video

in “Emacs' Org-Mode and Syncthing = Perfect (2017)” · View on HN

Emacs has recently been seeing a lot of growth from vim users who are migrating to emacs "distros" (like spacemacs and doom) that are pre-configured with emacs' vim-emulation. I found this video[0] a pretty interesting perspective from a die-hard vim user who switched. [0]: ▶ this video

in “Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]” · View on HN

It sounds counter-intuitive to use another editor, especially Emacs, but this might actually be the best advice. Emacs is on top of the game for proportional text editing, as well as the ability to make it behave very much (even exactly so) like Vim. I'd recommend watching this talk for why: ▶ this video

in “Can I use a non-monospaced font in either Vim or gVim?” · View on HN

I don't know NixOS, but this blog post and lecture might help you give emacs a fair trial: [link] ▶ this video One of my vim-using coworkers found it. He, along with another colleague, have since found emacs compelling enough to use as their main text editor.

in “Intero for Emacs: complete interactive development program for Haskell” · View on HN

You might find this article useful: [link] Aaron gave a great talk about his switch here: ▶ this video , which caused several people at work to move off NeoVim and give emacs a go.

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