I personally havent really used emacs for organizing, but I really like it for bash coding and writing software documenation in orgmode. I am even starting to get a little bit comfortable at writing my .emacs file but at some point I will have to do a lot of reorganizing and updating and I kind of dont want to do it (I still use .emacs and not emacs.d/init.el and all keybindings still use the legacy global-set-key command).

Apart from the work I am putting into it it is really great, because when I actually get to do stuff I can do so with great efficency. I am even starting to miss my emacs keybinds when not using emacs (especially ctrl-k for killing from your cursor position to the end of the line ctrl-a for jumping to the beginning of a line and ctrl-e for jumping to the end of a line). At this point when I am writing stuff in emacs (as example working on a bash script) I at maximum use my mouse for scrolling.

Fuck, I really did turn into the meme (and I am not even using it for longer than 4-5 months at maximum)___

  • chickenf622@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    8 months ago

    Excuse me while I get really mad at you for not using Vim even though it doesn’t effect me in anyway.

    Jokes aside, I’ve gone the route of just using an extension in VS code to give me the Vim key bindings. I can’t go back to non-modal text editors the muscle memory is too strong. I really should play around with emacs in “evil mode” at some point. Maybe I could get the best of both worlds then.

    Edit: Vince -> Vim, Vince is a terrible text editor he doesn’t even understand my keystrokes when I type at him.

  • Venat0r@lemmy.world
    14·
    8 months ago

    (especially ctrl-k for killing from your cursor position to the end of the line ctrl-a for jumping to the beginning of a line and ctrl-e for jumping to the end of a line)

    I haven’t tried emacs but in any other text editor for these things I’d do:

    • shift+end, del
    • home
    • end

    do you have any more complex examples where emacs excels?

  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

    People who know what emacs is is the same demographic as people who love talking about what software they use

  • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    I used to live in emacs, back when emacs stood-for “Eight Megs ( RAM ) & Continuous Swapping”.

    ( the 386-486 days )

    Morass-of-capability.

    Then, after being fought-off by Vim a couple times, I read, in “The DESIGN of Everyday Things”, that humankind has a mental-defect which causes us to NOT change-levels, when we NEED to have changed-levels.

    People who speak louder, when the hearer doesn’t even know the language, are doing this, e.g.

    & after that, I encountered a good explanation of Vim’s modality, & found out about vimtutor…

    & tried it, again…

    & then understood that by forcing my self to keep using Vim ( I’m autistic/woodenheaded, so forgetting what mode I’m in is much more frequent than it would be for neurotypicals ) applies-force to help break my unconscious-woodenness-of-mind, making my mind more levels-agile.

    Through the years, it has worked.

    I’ve not used Helix, which apparently is a modern improvement/replacement for Vim ( without much of the damn cruft ),

    but modal editors do help make one’s mind more levels-agile, & THAT is immensely worthwhile: it is competitive-advantage that few others invest-in!

    No, I’m not recommending Vim: I’m recommending modal-editors.

    Find the one which works rightest for you, & let it keep bashing your unconscious-mind’s stuckness default-habit, & eventually you’ll be cornered by fewer bugs, be broken to failure less often, etc.

    Morass-of-capability felt nice, but it was solving the wrong problem.

    Modal-editing corrects one’s human mental-defect of not-changing-levels, to some extent, & that’s like being ambushed by a gang, except that one’s got what Crocodile Dundee called “a knife” on one…

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        • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.orgOP
          4·
          8 months ago

          Vim and emacs are really worth it when you do a lot of writing and editing (whether it be code or text). If you only occasionally edit config files nano is completely fine. However I do recommend to learn stuff like exiting and saving in vim because no matter what, about every single distro has some form of vim so you might encounter it in imporant scenarios and then you know your way around.

        • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          8 months ago

          I’m only ever using a command line text editor for changing the odd config file, so for me the benefits of vim or emacs has never outweighed the hassle of figuring them out. So I stick with nano.