Try doom emacs
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Or spacemacs
I use doom emacs. has everything I need, even use it as my regular terminal now. check it out, it's pretty damn good what you can do with it.
M-x doctor if you're feeling down.
;D
What are your favourite emacs tips and tricks / configurations?
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MiniMap
(There are some others in other git repos... But I'll presume that's the ideal one to use, and less janky than the one I first found and added after being inspired by Kate's minimap).
Even though I find I rarely enable it, MiniMap is probably my fave. At least of the ones springing to mind currently.
Honourable mention too to Rainbow-Delimiters. Very handy for keeping those parentheses in order.
[Edit: (^ whimsical image, as posted https://lemmy.wtf/post/34037404 , shared again here because I said parentheses, and it reminded me of it... seemed fun and relevant... because parentheses are like plates... get it? Gotta keep 'em clean. Hehe.)]
Oh, and did you know emacs can be used as a... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk3A41U0iO4
::: spoiler Spoiler warning. It really is much more fun and joy to watch that Matt Adereth video^ to see what it is. Don't click this, just watch it, to get the real delight. (IMO, one of the top 10 tech talks ever.)
3D CAD Modelling in emacs!?
I remember org-mode was quite impressive, like really unique. I used it for a while to publish a blog.
alias emacs=vi and start using a real editor
I was like that ~20 years ago. But since around ~10 years ago I realized that Emacs basically includes Vim. And much more. Yes Emacs is hard to get into and has a weird language, but it's immensely powerful, extensible and also extremely reliable and future-proof. No you probably shouldn't do everything inside Emacs. But several things are powerful, well-integrated and efficient.
Vim is still great though, I use it in the terminal for quick random config file edits or over ssh sessions (haven't gotten around or used to trying tramp mode in Emacs). It's great because some variant of it basically exists on every Unix-like system. And I also highly recommend learning modal editing with the Vim keybindings, which works inside Emacs as well of course. The default Emacs keybinds are unergonomic at best. But it also includes a mode for using Vim keys, and that mode is basically just as powerful as Vim itself. Not half-baked at all, which you might assume in such cases.
My point exactly. Emacs is more than an editor, it’s an everything runtime environment, nearly an opening system in itself. But my computer already has an operating system. I prefer to always use the simplest tool that gets the job done well.
Lol, discussing vi vs. Emacs makes me feel young again. DOS vs. Unix anyone? C vs. Pascal? Or Amiga vs. Atari? 😁