![]() ![]() Learning Emacs forced me to understand Lisp. I never felt the "sunk cost" of learning it. I am outrageously grateful to myself for trying Emacs one day, long ago. People who have sunk a decade into learning a tool that's slowly fading The answer isn't always "yes" but it's still slowly taking over my life. After this I always spent a bit of time thinking about whether Org would be a good solution to any task I may have. There is no better gateway drug than a clear and imminent pay-off. ![]() Took a bit to figure out but was totally worth it: I made LETTER a custom to-do state, put names of requested letter writers in as tags, exported only LETTER items to a new file which I uploaded to Github and directed my sources of letters to. I could keep things organized while still having room for free text, long links etc. I'd heard about Org-mode and quickly realized that the combination of tags, custom to-do states and fine tuned control of export options made Org ideal for this. The only solution people could suggest was a spreadsheet in Google Docs, but the mere thoughts gave me a headache. Then 5 years later I needed to keep track of academic job applications and requests for letters of recommendation. I learned Vim because I needed to do column editing and basically only Vim or Emacs, and I liked the Vim keybindings better. Apparently, not the case at all.įor me, it's always been about finding a use case where it was clearly an advantage. I know I heard people say that but I always thought of them as denial-filled ramblings of people who have sunk a decade into learning a tool that's slowly fading. I'm in the process of installing mu4e now and I'm slowly beginning to understand things about Emacs that just cannot make sense to you unless you've spent some time with it. Dired, so that's what they mean when they say "Emacs is not just a text editor." ![]() Now, I started thinking it'd be so nice to have a file manager that was keyboard-focused and da-dum-tusss, the penny dropped. While I'd never switch to the emacs browser I installed vimium on my chrome and it works rather well. That made me want more modal-based stuff, I wanted my browser to have modal navigation. I started relying on vim-fu for code editing and it's so much more enjoyable (don't know if it's faster yet) than using a mouse. I did pick up the evil keybindings quickly and after 2-3 days of installation and setup woes, my javascript editing environment was set up rather well. I knew vim keybindings and stuff already but I didn't use them on a day-to-day basis only on servers that didn't have anything else. I have everything else exactly how I want it, I just need a text editor.įor whatever reason, I made the switch from VSCode to Doom Emacs about 20 days ago. Before I started using emacs I thought wtf does that even mean? I don't care what else it can do. I have heard that thrown around so many times that it was one of those sentences that didn't mean much anymore. ![]()
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