{"id":11972,"date":"2024-02-12T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=11972"},"modified":"2024-02-12T11:55:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:55:10","slug":"why-is-emacs-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=11972","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Emacs Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nOver at the Emacs subreddit, jackn3 noticed that a lot of experienced Emacs user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/emacs\/comments\/1ahtdp9\/what_is_it_that_makes_using_emacs_fun_for_you\/\">describe Emacs as a program that&rsquo;s fun to use<\/a> and he wondered if the other redditers felt the same and if so why. The responses to his question are interesting.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA surprising number of the comments mention Lisp and how easy it is to configure or expand Emacs using it and how much fun it is to do so. I&rsquo;m all in on Lisp so of course I agree with this but it&rsquo;s surprising and heartening how many Emacs users agree. I guess all those comments about parentheses, how terrible Lisp is, and how Emacs would be much better if only it were written in JavaScript or some other non-Lisp language are a minority opinion. Or more likely the opinion of people who aren&rsquo;t actually Emacs users. Regardless, a significant number of the commenters mentioned Lisp as one of the things that make Emacs so enjoyable.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBy far the most prevalent answer to Jackn3&rsquo;s question was that its configurability makes it easy to adapt Emacs to your way of working instead of the other way around. That&rsquo;s been a constant theme here at Emacs. It&rsquo;s hard to overstate what a win it is to have an editor that you can configure to match your workflow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf you have a few minutes to spare, take a look at the post. The answers will make you glad that you&rsquo;re an Emacs user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Emacs subreddit, jackn3 noticed that a lot of experienced Emacs user describe Emacs as a program that&rsquo;s fun to use and he wondered if the other redditers felt the same and if so why. The responses to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=11972\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-11972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11973,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11972\/revisions\/11973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}