#emacs users of mastodon: why?
I'm more interested in people that used emac *after* Xorg and/or Vim was invented. I know that before that, Emacs was the best computing environment.
I gave it a try a bunch of times, with different motivations, but I just couldn't bring myself to get proficient at it.
@Zezin I used since the 80s several variations of vi. Eventually about 7 years ago vims limitations and some YouTube videos on emacs convinced me to try it. My motivation was to be as efficient as possible developing code. My hobby for a few years was customizing emacs until I approached the ideal environment, now it’s more occasional. The time involved makes no sense unless you enjoy the hobby part.
@ambihelical Cool.
Do you use the vanilla keybindings?
@Zezin No evil, it was one of the things that eased my transition from vim. And I like that I can still use vim effectively when I'm on a system that lacks emacs, if I used vanilla, I'd eventually forget things.
@ambihelical That's a good point... And do you feel that evil also functions well outside of text editing?
Maybe my impression of it being clunky is just misguided.
@Zezin Sometimes it is clunky. I use evil-collection selectively, which helps. Still not as smooth as I would like, but it's ok. C-z to get into the right mode is sometimes needed, mainly for obscure modes that I haven't configured the default binding correctly yet. Some modes are just better with their original bindings as well, so knowing some basic emacs navigation keys is necessary.
