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Is emacs any good? I have never used anything but vim.
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Is emacs any good? I have never used anything but vim.
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Depends on how autistic you are tbdesu
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>>54469709
why did you mean
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>>54469735
*what
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>>54469684
Emacs has a vim mode. Spacemacs is like a completely built vim-Emacs mashup, it's probably the best editing suite I've used.

People complain about the speed of Emacs since it's basically a Lisp interpreter, but it's not a huge deal. Give it a shot, both vanilla Emacs and Spacemacs, see what works for you.
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THIS THING HAS TETRIS HOLY SHIT
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>>54469735
If you're autistic enough to think of your source files in terms of lisp output, then it's the most most powerful text editor out there
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>>54469684
I still use DOS Edit, but one of my colleagues absolutely loves Emacs. The extensibility looks amazing.
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>>54469878
What the hell is "lisp output"? Are you just talking about Lisp source code?
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>>54469981
The output of scripts written in lisp...
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>>54469814
Also a psychotherapist for your many problems.
m-x doctor
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Another long term VIM user here. 10+ years.
Considering Emacs. Not sure how to get started.
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>>54470027
Okay, that's just Lisp scripting. You don't have to think of your source files as "lisp output". Lisp is pretty comfy for that, even if elisp is far from the best Lisp.

>>54470056
If you still want to keep Vi-like bindings then you should look into Evil mode. Same as with Vim, you just start with a built-in tutorial.

There's a starter pack called Spacemacs but it has a lot of extra crap on top of Evil/Vim bindings.
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>>54470056
Open Emacs, enter C-h t
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it's great. emacswiki.org
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>>54469684
Loving emacs here... but like mentioned in some comments: EVIL is the way to go.
You know, best of both worlds. Extensibility AND modal editing.


M-x butterfly for the lulz.
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