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diff --git a/gemfeed/2022-11-24-i-tried-emacs-but-i-switched-back-to-neovim.gmi b/gemfeed/2022-11-24-i-tried-emacs-but-i-switched-back-to-neovim.gmi index 98cacabc..dfe9fbd8 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2022-11-24-i-tried-emacs-but-i-switched-back-to-neovim.gmi +++ b/gemfeed/2022-11-24-i-tried-emacs-but-i-switched-back-to-neovim.gmi @@ -2,6 +2,18 @@ > Published at 2022-11-24T11:17:15+02:00; Updated at 2022-11-26 +As a long-lasting user of Vim (and NeoVim), I always wondered what GNU Emacs is really about, so I decided to try it. I didn't try vanilla GNU Emacs, but Doom Emacs. I chose Doom Emacs as it is a neat distribution of Emacs with Evil mode enabled by default. Evil mode allows Vi(m) key bindings (so to speak, it's emulating Vim within Emacs), and I am pretty sure I won't be ready to give up all the muscle memory I have built over more than a decade. + +=> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ GNU Emacs +=> https://github.com/doomemacs/ Doom Emacs + +I used Doom Emacs for around two months. Still, ultimately I decided to switch back to NeoVim as my primary editor and IDE and Vim (usually pre-installed on Linux-based systems) and Nvi (usually pre-installed on *BSD systems) as my "always available editor" for quick edits. (It is worth mentioning that I don't have a high opinion on whether Vim or NeoVim is the better editor, I prefer NeoVim as it comes with better defaults out of the box, but there is no real blocker to use Vim instead). + +=> https://www.vim.org Vim +=> https://neovim.io NeoVim + +So why did I switch back to the Vi-family? + ``` _/ \ _(\(o / \ / _ ^^^o @@ -15,17 +27,16 @@ Art by \ \_! / __! ^^----^^ "^--v' ``` -As a long-lasting user of Vim (and NeoVim), I always wondered what GNU Emacs is really about, so I decided to try it. I didn't try vanilla GNU Emacs, but Doom Emacs. I chose Doom Emacs as it is a neat distribution of Emacs with Evil mode enabled by default. Evil mode allows Vi(m) key bindings (so to speak, it's emulating Vim within Emacs), and I am pretty sure I won't be ready to give up all the muscle memory I have built over more than a decade. - -=> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ GNU Emacs -=> https://github.com/doomemacs/ Doom Emacs +## Table of Contents -I used Doom Emacs for around two months. Still, ultimately I decided to switch back to NeoVim as my primary editor and IDE and Vim (usually pre-installed on Linux-based systems) and Nvi (usually pre-installed on *BSD systems) as my "always available editor" for quick edits. (It is worth mentioning that I don't have a high opinion on whether Vim or NeoVim is the better editor, I prefer NeoVim as it comes with better defaults out of the box, but there is no real blocker to use Vim instead). - -=> https://www.vim.org Vim -=> https://neovim.io NeoVim - -So why did I switch back to the Vi-family? +* ⇢ I tried (Doom) Emacs, but I switched back to (Neo)Vim +* ⇢ ⇢ Emacs is a giant dragon +* ⇢ ⇢ Magit love +* ⇢ ⇢ Graphical UI +* ⇢ ⇢ Scripting it +* ⇢ ⇢ The famous Emacs Org mode +* ⇢ ⇢ Seeking simplicity +* ⇢ ⇢ Conclusion ## Emacs is a giant dragon |