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I got inspired by an Emacs video [0] I found on HN and decided to (once again) try and learn to use it. A lot of emacs videos are tutorials and boring, but it was really cool to see some of the features from someone who was very enthusiastic about it.

I keep coming back to emacs every few months so I figured it has to mean something. I tried setting up a react development environment. Got some stuff like auto-complete, but missing other stuff. I essentially want it to mirror VS code to start. I know it's possible but there's definitely a learning curve. I also tried setting up a python environment, and had similar results.

It's one of those technologies that seems life changing. Not necessarily in productivity (who cares right?), but just empowering. The closest thing you can get to being a hacker in a movie, setting up an environment where you can easily program macros to do any arbitrary tasks or alter the environment. It really seems like an incredible piece of software that, on the surface level, looks like it could serve as as the framework for so many things, kind of like the web browser is today, but more flexible and programmable. Maybe it's just been around too long. I think if it was invented just today it would have a lot of hype. But because it's been around so long, it's just meh.

I don't know, maybe I'm just being romantic about it and will never get over the learning curve. It's really hard to leave VS Code for development.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkIicfzPBys

⬐ kingkongjaffa

Spacemacs and doom eMacs are really comfy as newer emacs user.

The killer app in emacs for me is org-mode above anything to do with coding.

⬐ Rodeoclash

I've come over to VSCode from Vim because I'm working a bit with Typescript. I see the appeal (but miss the ease I have working with Vim splits)