A Convert Reports on His Progress

A year ago, Bailey Ling was a Vim user. Like many of us, he switched to Emacs and now he’s giving a progress report. Many of Ling’s long-held work flows have become victim to Emacs. For example, he used to use tmux to handle multiple sessions with Vim. As an Emacs user that is no longer necessary. He’s got other examples so be sure to read his post.

Like many who make the trip from Vim to Emacs, Ling started off using evil-mode but found that he could be more efficient by learning the native Emacs key bindings. He still uses evil-mode for editing text but turns it off for everything else. That seems like a reasonably compromise but I’m still glad I just jumped in and learned the Emacs key bindings. As I’ve written before, my muscle memory still has flashbacks to Vim key strokes with, often, hilarious results. Trying to cope with two sets of key strokes would likely render me about as efficient as I would be with ed.

As with almost every Emacs user, Ling started moving more and more of his work flow into Emacs. He, like me, loves how you can make a tweak to Emacs and evaluate it on the spot without restarting Emacs. He’s found, as many of us have, that Emacs is a way of life.

If you’re a convert from Vim, give his post a read; I’m sure it will resonate. Even if you aren’t a convert, you may find his experiences interesting.

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