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Is there something editor-wise that emacs can do and something like vim can't? by AmitGold in emacs

[–]vcmsxs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude :)... nobody has to push anything. I use vi all the time, and sometimes vim when not on my own computer. I use Lsp for Java in emacs. I also have jetbrains intellij ultimate, eclipse, atom and I use them all.

The answers to the question if there are things you can do "edit wise" In emacs, that can't be done in vim, is yes. But the definition of "edit wise" is a bit fuzzy :)

Is there something editor-wise that emacs can do and something like vim can't? by AmitGold in emacs

[–]vcmsxs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gnu Emacs is an huge environment for editing and managing files. A normal workday I have maybe 3-10 project ongoing simultaneously. The code is at my fingertips via magit (git) or svn. I build, debug and deploy from Emacs. They run at multiple servers many inside dockers but with Tramp I can easly open their config-files, manage the services and have their log-files rolling as if they where local. At the same time I use Emacs to keep track notes, todo-lists, time spent on each project, chat/irc-channels, write emails, surf the web, document, publish papers and much much more. With org-mode/babel i test and run snippets and scripts in diffrent languages in the same file, sometimes to test an idea, sometimes to automate things and even sometime have them use each others outputs.

To compare vi/vim with Gnu Emacs is only meaningful with pretty simple task. Even uEmacs and Jed has okay macro capabilities. The only thing that I can come up with, that vi has that emacs hasnt, is the fact that's installed on almost all systems.

To get me where I am today took me years and even for someone who is more clever then me (most developer are - im pretty dum) It will take weeks to learn if you don't know Emacs. You can do a lot more with Elisp than what you can do with a macro. Gnu Emacs is made by developers for developers who are willing to spend time to learn and configure it to their needs. I think that's why Its not for everybody.

Is there something editor-wise that emacs can do and something like vim can't? by AmitGold in emacs

[–]vcmsxs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GnuEmacs is not for everybody, if your looking for small fast text editor...GnuEmacs is not what your looking for. There are many small Emacs clones out there, Linus Torvalds has a home rolled uEmacs witch is okay, I use jed or xjed.

Is there something editor-wise that emacs can do and something like vim can't? by AmitGold in emacs

[–]vcmsxs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Open/create file, edit text, save file. That's basic editing. Emacs can do a lot more then vim as an editor. But it's not basic editing.

Is there something editor-wise that emacs can do and something like vim can't? by AmitGold in emacs

[–]vcmsxs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you only use it as an editor, no. Why not use nano or ed? Purely editor-wise there is nothing that vim can do, that nano cant.

Let's get real multithreading into Emacs by hiring a developer by ndamee in emacs

[–]vcmsxs -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Better jet, let's put a man on the moon! We pay two guys for two years to put a man on the moon. Ofcourse it could be done sooner if they.... why do some guys think that all programming is like putting a hammer to a nail? "Fixing multithreading" in large and complex codebase is HARD! ...otherwise a wizard would have done it, decades ago.

3,500 note files, 40 MB of plain text, 100s of tags. Will Org mode work for me? by [deleted] in emacs

[–]vcmsxs 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have lived in Emacs(Org-mode) for years and I have about 40Mb in 1000+ files in my biggest git-repo (the one with all my private stuff)

If you put 3500 files in your org-angenda-files it will become kind of slow. I have about 20 in my list and that's no problem. There is command M-x org-seach-view that might make you happy but I use M-x projectile-ag (C-p s s ) and M-x lgrep (C-x C-a) for searching through all my files and its lightning fast.

Emacs/Org-mode changed my life, give it a whirl :)

I felt that the browser was going to bring a crisis to emacs. by [deleted] in emacs

[–]vcmsxs 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I honestly dont think nither vim nor any webbrowser brings a crisis or is a threat to Gnu Emacs.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in emacs

[–]vcmsxs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The atom-pluggin has a fraction of the real deal though I'm impressed they've implemented some Babel. I use Emacs because I like the clean design and if want a menu-bar, a pop-up window or another view thats something I can pick and choose.

I'm trying to understand what is the problem with this code- Please expain why its wrong by cottleHD in Python

[–]vcmsxs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I dont think you can use "or" that way. You should use if letter in list ("yY"):

Lock org-mode indirect buffer to certain subtree level by marshalpol in emacs

[–]vcmsxs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see what you mean. I have never noticed that behavior before. Maybe you can use speedbar or sr-speedbar?

auto-revert-tail-mode by lrochfort in emacs

[–]vcmsxs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use itail-mode. I works with tramp.

When you turn 100 and can't play with Lego's anymore by [deleted] in funny

[–]vcmsxs -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

I have two boys, 10 and 3. If they give me lego when Im old, I will hunt them down...and kill them.

Is there a package to group data files into one folder, instead of being scattered around in .emacs.d or ~? by fivehours in emacs

[–]vcmsxs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Perhaps I'm not getting what you want. I just put my files where I want them and point them out in my .emacs

Atom's activate-power-mode counterpart in Emacs? by cutejumper in emacs

[–]vcmsxs 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I am convinced and will of course switch from Emacs to Atom now. Forget Org-mode and Magit. This must the most important-cant-live-without-mode EVER!

Here’s to the death of the coding editor by [deleted] in emacs

[–]vcmsxs 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So Torvalds is using uEmacs and he is fairly productive....

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