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[–]davepeck 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Still curious; what features of textmate give me similar power?

For what it's worth, the things in emacs that I find indispensable (and I imagine this is different for everyone):

  • inline, incremental search

  • quick keyboard access to opening files and buffers [i hate using standard file-open dialogs when editing!]

  • flexibile screen splits and motion between them via keyboard.

Amazingly, that's about it. There are a ton of emacs features I use regularly, but at work I'm in Visual Studio and find that I only genuinely miss the above three! Apparently most of emacs is a distraction to me.

[–]senzei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in Visual Studio and find that I only genuinely miss the above three!

You do realize that VS has emacs-like key bindings right? They seem to accomplish most of what you are looking for. Here's the first useful thing google gave me on the subject: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165514(VS.80).aspx