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That is how emacs has felt to me. There was a large amount of upfront learning, more than there probably should be for this example to make perfect sense, but a
by ZackOfAllTrades 15y ago
That is how emacs has felt to me. There was a large amount of upfront learning, more than there probably should be for this example to make perfect sense, but after a few months with it I am able to do the basics pretty well. Every time I wish I could do something in emacs, a little bit of googling shows that there is a key binding for exactly what I want. So bit by bit, emacs is going from a weird text editor that does the basics into something way more useful than I thought.
/noob rant about the magic, magic!, of using emacs.
- endgame 15y agoI also came here to talk about emacs. Two of the things that I think made it this way: * Scripts such as keywiz let you incrementally improve your knowledge. * Having a REPL in scratch means you can interactively tweak things.
- jrockway 15y agoHaving a REPL in scratch means you can interactively tweak things. IELM is more of a proper REPL, however.
- ZackOfAllTrades 15y agoKeywiz made me realize I know absolutely nothing about emacs.
- davidw 15y agoI started using Emacs in 1996, and am still learning new things about it.