▲ | iLemming 2 days ago | |
Oh, you think people choose Emacs instead of Vim because of keybindings? Then tell me please, how often do you do your research in Vim, using LaTeX embeddings while taking annotations to a pdf that's rendered in the adjacent window? How often do you take notes, while watching a YouTube video while controlling the playback, speed and volume from your editor? I can watch the video, while following the transcript karaoke-style, pause, speed-up, mute the video whenever I want (so I can start typing), I can grab the pieces of transcript and ask an LLM to give me explanations, etc. Do you read RSS in Vim? Are any RSS readers as well-integrated and feature-rich as elfeed.el in Emacs? I honestly doubt it. And it's not a matter of skepticism over the quality of Vim extensions. Emacs has far fewer active users and even fewer of those who build things in Elisp, yet it remains the most integratable thing ever. The thing is - unlike VSCode, Vim, Sublime, and IntelliJ - Emacs allows you to change any given behavior of any function - built-in or third-party - with such great granularity that is simply not possible anywhere else. What about email? Is there anything close to the level of notmuch, mu4e or gnus? I seriously doubt any vim plugins provide the same level of integration. Do you manage your Jira (or whatever project management) you do from Vim? Do you control your browser from Vim? I do it from Emacs and it's very cool. Can you perform a dynamic search on YouTube, Google, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, your browser history and other places while typing the query only once? I do that all the time in Emacs. So, Emacs is not about keybindings. Because you can change them in a way that no other editor lets you do. In Emacs you can use whatever modal or non-modal editing flavor you want, but that's beyond the point. | ||
▲ | suslik 6 hours ago | parent [-] | |
> How often do you take notes, while watching a YouTube video while controlling the playback, speed and volume from your editor? I can watch the video, while following the transcript karaoke-style, pause, speed-up, mute the video whenever I want (so I can start typing), I can grab the pieces of transcript and ask an LLM to give me explanations, etc. Hey, any chance you can expand on how you do this, or just share configs? Thanks! |