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Re: "Someone on reddit shared his emacs config, I don't know how..."
people who use emacs are insane
2023-08-21 · 3 weeks ago
Someone said that Emacs is an OS that could use a good editor. But with built in Lisp, you can customize it to do any task, or write a browser... so it's not that ridiculous. My config started as a few lines, and grew to a few hundred as I added stuff and colors I liked...
The old joke was (in the 90s), the reason by the GNU OS is not finished is that they want to boot into Emacs and then run their OS and they do not have a computer that is fast enough to run it
I'm a Vim guy, NeoVim actually, but we have the same sort of guys ricing their configs to hell and back. I like to keep regular vi around and use that when I'm not in a full programming session. Keeping in touch with how it behaves out of the box helps when you have to jump onto another machine. You could probably do the same with uemacs?
Heh. My current emacs configuration files run to 7015 lines right now., and still includes a little code from my first .emacs, which I created when first used emacs on VAX/VMS back in the mid to late 1980s. I don't find it a problem to maintain, but each piece was was written as it was needed. Some of it is probably obsolete, but I've never gone back and trimmed it down.
In the end I use maybe a dozen keybindings in Emacs and about the same in vim... I know there are better ways to do things, but don't bother looking them up except for extreme cases...
Like jeang3nie I keep my vim config pretty slim, mostly nerdtree and some language specific plugins. I'm sure there are those who are equally frugal in emacs. I don't think it's a quality of the editor, but the programmer. Some people like to chase perfection.
I've tried using vi/m, neovim, or emacs as daily drivers. It's never really stuck for me. I prefer VSCode or even just notepad++ for most things.
2023-08-22 · 3 weeks ago
My .vimrc is ~170 lines and i haven't changed it in years
2023-08-24 · 2 weeks ago
Someone on reddit shared his emacs config, I don't know how I should feel about as it has more than 5k lines. He must be either one of those 10x developers, if they exist at all, or someone who just grow into it. But I don't think it is that useful as it is supposed to be. If your init.el files has 5k lines, you must be doing something wrong imho.