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Comment on Emacs vs. Vim by jcs

jcs — Sat, 25 May 2013 13:39:31 +0000

I agree completely. I used (v)im for longer than I’ve used Emacs and have nothing but respect for it. Like you, I never enlisted.

Comment on Emacs vs. Vim by Phil

Phil — Sat, 25 May 2013 04:40:18 +0000

I always figured that most people (on both sides) do see it that way? Hence the standard joke that Emacs is a nice OS but it lacks a good editor.

But then I’ve never gone to ‘war’ about this — it’s always been obvious that both are awesome. I’m happy to tell someone why I love Emacs, and if I encountered a programmer using Windows notepad I’d have to have words with them, but I’m not going to get into an argument with a Vim user.

The fact is that nobody using Emacs or Vim has made a bad choice.

Comment on Emacs Configuration Organization by Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:36:21 +0000

I’m now using Org-mode based single file configuration and seems like the right call. Besides collapsing, I can organize hierarchically the configuration and attach tags to the headers, so I can see which new packages I added so I don’t forget about them.

Comment on Emacs Configuration Organization by Dave

Dave — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:21:47 +0000

Every year or so I change my configuration. I have used a single file (plus os/machine specific files), multiple files, and an org-mode init file.

In the last year I have given the Emacs Prelude a try, and have been happy with that so far. Especially because useful stuff is often added to it that I might not have found otherwise.

I always have to fight the temptation to change everything completely, but Donald’s post may push me into messing with it again :)

Comment on Opening the File at Point by Phil

Phil — Wed, 22 May 2013 23:54:57 +0000

FWIW, ffap handles URLs just fine, and with more general protocol support than just “https?” (unless you have set ffap-url-regexp to nil, or similar).

Comment on A Fast Open for init.el by Jacek Wysocki

Jacek Wysocki — Wed, 22 May 2013 06:46:19 +0000

I have similar approach but my keys are bound to F1 key map. e.g. I have ek to open key binding .el file and ow to open org mode wiki. See more at: https://github.com/exu/emacs.d/blob/master/autoload/keys.el#L43-L63

Comment on A Fast Open for init.el by jcs

jcs — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:17:43 +0000

For some reason I didn’t get notified when you posted and I just now noticed your comment. Sorry for keeping you languishing in the moderation queue.

Comment on A Fast Open for init.el by Phil

Phil — Mon, 20 May 2013 23:07:17 +0000

For the longest time I’ve used a couple of custom functions for reloading and visiting my init file, with the following aliases defined, so that to visit my init file I type M-x lll RET

(defalias 'll 'load-dot-emacs) (defalias 'lll 'find-dot-emacs)

I don’t think I’ve used the ‘load’ variant in years. It wouldn’t do much in any case — nowadays my init.el mostly just requires other files — but in any case I would now tend to evaluate individual functions or regions rather than reload the whole file.

I’m not even sure why I did it this way. Perhaps at the time I decided that it was something I wouldn’t want to waste a key-binding on, but would still do regularly enough to not want to type the whole function name? It’s pretty quick to type in any case, so I’ve never been inclined to change it.

In a sense, short command names like this almost turn M-x into another prefix keybinding. It’s probably safe to assume that very short names won’t be clobbered. Probably. I also use aliases for a small number of other commands (dw for delete-trailing-whitespace, ws for whitespace-mode, nm for normal-mode).

Comment on A Fast Open for init.el by CJ

CJ — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:05:43 +0000

Regarding using separate windows, very early on in my Emacs days I set:


(global-set-key (kbd "M-0") 'delete-window)
(global-set-key (kbd "M-1") 'delete-other-windows)
(global-set-key (kbd "M-2") 'split-window-vertically)
(global-set-key (kbd "M-3") 'split-window-horizontally)

Comment on JSON Versus S-Expressions (Again) by borgauf

borgauf — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:04:17 +0000

It seems like s-exps win, like you said, because an s-exp can do it all: data, code, and comments. JSON seems suited to Javascript where a meta-format standard for sending and receiving AJAX is needed. But with the combination of Lisp and s-exps you could have points trading code as well. Points could “evolve” their very operations, not just “update” their “data.”