{"id":12302,"date":"2024-07-11T12:05:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T16:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=12302"},"modified":"2024-07-11T12:05:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T16:05:36","slug":"a-n00b-reminisces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=12302","title":{"rendered":"A N00b Reminisces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nOver at the Emacs subreddit, Ok-Machine-6265 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/emacs\/comments\/1dv91ry\/sharing_some_my_thoughts_on_emacs_and_learning\/\">is a new(ish) Emacs user who has some thoughts after using Emacs for about a year and a half<\/a>. His experience has been good. He loves the power that Emacs gives him and lists some of its many benefits:\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"org-ul\">\n<li>Configurability<\/li>\n<li>Visibility into all aspects of Emacs&rsquo; code and data<\/li>\n<li>Keyboard centricity: no mouse required<\/li>\n<li>Stability: core functions just work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nand finally, Emacs is an editor for hackers and those who want to make it their own. You don&rsquo;t <i>have<\/i> to customize it, of course, but if you need special operations, Emacs makes it possible and easy to add then.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs usual, a lot of the wisdom is in the comments. Ok-Machine-6265 had a few complaints:\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"org-ul\">\n<li>Emacs can be slow to load large files<\/li>\n<li>There are so many commands that it&rsquo;s easy to forget their key bindings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nThe commenters suggest many solutions to these problems. For example, the wonderful <code>which-key<\/code> goes a long way in helping you remember key sequences. It&rsquo;s a third part app that I&rsquo;ve been using for a long time but, happily, it will be builtin as of Emacs 30.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOne of the things that Ok-Machine-6265 says is that Emacs is 100% configurable and one of the commenters objected to that saying that, for example, changing the behavior of <kbd>Meta<\/kbd> in Org mode is apt to break things. The commenters responded, and I agree, that 100% compatibility is not the same as <i>easily reconfiguarable<\/i>. It may be easy or it may be hard but at the end of the day, almost everything in Emacs is configurable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Emacs subreddit, Ok-Machine-6265 is a new(ish) Emacs user who has some thoughts after using Emacs for about a year and a half. His experience has been good. He loves the power that Emacs gives him and lists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=12302\">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-12302","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\/12302","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=12302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12303,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302\/revisions\/12303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}