clojureyoureyes

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by clojureyoureyes 2y ago
I'd rewrite in a Clojure-like language
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by clojureyoureyes 5y ago
tried Wanderlust?
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by clojureyoureyes 5y ago
> Autocompletion is supported, but git provides this as well. git, as a classic unix cli app, doesn't provide autocompletion git, as a classic unix cli app, doesn't know nothing about the result of a previous command, etc. Thes
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by clojureyoureyes 5y ago
> I have no interest in trying to memorize which hotkey does what, and how to bend yet a new interface to my will you don't have to, most of the time `git subcommand` counterpart is just `M-x magit-subcommand`
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by clojureyoureyes 5y ago
> Yeah, git is certainly a low level tool. > I too google the commands I don't use often. So, spend more time getting the same result is fine for you?
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by clojureyoureyes 5y ago
Software is for people, not for software itself. I want to get things done fast and with less cognitive load, magit allows me to, git doesn't.
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by clojureyoureyes 6y ago
> and modal editing saved my career from an early death by wrist injury The fun thing is I stopped experiencing wrist pain after I switched from Vim to Emacs (with ±native bindings), partly because I moved Ctrl to Caps almost instantly,
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by clojureyoureyes 6y ago
> Because the MacBook trackpads are so precise But you to have to know where to click. And that's the biggest problem with so-called "modern" UIs - it lacks discoverability. Either you memorize all menus and dialogs, or yo
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by clojureyoureyes 6y ago
> but I haven't developed the mental capacity to remember all the keyboard shortcuts for emacs or vim. In Emacs - you don't have, there are a lot of packages which make the discoverability a breeze - counsel-M-x, helm-M-x for e
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by clojureyoureyes 6y ago
> I don't need my text editor to send email You don't, there's an MTA for that, but for composing mail, filtering mailbox, searching and other text-related tasks Emacs has much superior interface. > be an IRC client Mes
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by clojureyoureyes 6y ago
Emacs is not about shortcuts, you can use default, CUA, viper, Evil, or even custom ones. The main things are lisp and interactive commands.
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by clojureyoureyes 6y ago
emacsclient usually starts even faster than the Vim (even without .vimrc)
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by clojureyoureyes 6y ago
> I need better manipulation of context-specific, meaningful, rich objects. They are still represented as text in 99% of editing interfaces, and you have to work with that representation.
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by clojureyoureyes 6y ago
> Emacs was invented for a world where Text was everything. Text is still a large part of computing. > These days programming languages are designed around tooling. Every time I see a language which requires a lot of tooling to use it
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by clojureyoureyes 6y ago
Then find another one. Clojure is quite popular these days.