Hello there .
I am using as my OS devuan gnu+linux .
The point is I like philosophy of Unix using like tmux + nvim + mutt .
and I love the vi keybings so much …

Sometimes I am thinking to switch to gnu emacs … but I feel that I will find some difficulties
and I am afraid .

Is there a easy way to use emacs ?
can someone help or give me some YT videos to watch to have a good idea about emacs ?

  • github-alphapapaBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    can someone help or give me some YT videos to watch to have a good idea about emacs ?

    I hesitate to be the curmudgeon here, but if you can’t–or won’t–bother to visit youtube.com and type “emacs” into the search box, then you probably won’t enjoy using Emacs. Emacs is most appreciated by people who take a bit of initiative.

    • StudyInformal821BEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Is this why people type “emacs” and click search? I still find it odd, like, I wish search results on “emacs” would show something other than “how to get started”. But maybe it’s a good thing.

  • spauldo@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Emacs doesn’t follow the UNIX philosophy. It didn’t originate on UNIX - it was born in a mainframe environment. Instead of lots of independent specialized utilities it’s a Lisp engine with a text editor as its default program.

    That said, there’s nothing to be afraid of. It’s not like vi will stop working. Just install it and run the tutorial, play around with customize, learn how to make an init file and install which-key, read some blogs (Mastering Emacs is a good one), browse the info pages, and use it.

  • StudyInformal821BEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s hard to convince people but, Emacs is simple. Have you tried showing your grandmother how to use a computer? Emacs has it’s own way a little, but it’s a simple way. So long as you don’t commit to it before you’re comfortable with it, and so long as you don’t install packages except magit, Emacs won’t come at a cost.

    Also can we all agree that tmux nvim and mutt don’t quite follow the Unix philosophy? Compared to Emacs, one could say Emacs is closer to the Unix philosophy (until you bloat it)

  • BeautyxArtBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    i feel the same ‘panic’ i’m on that for a while and that’s wrong. start and go ahead