James, I love you like a brother, but man, after 40-odd years of using vi/vim, this year I discovered Emacs and it's a totally different level. It's not that it's a better editor, because it's not. Vim is clearly the better editor. But Emacs is like opening a door into a different dimension. I feel like I am only now beginning to see what's possible with computers and trust me when I say, I've already done a lot with computers. Emacs is not "polished". But it is "polishable". That is to say it is infinitely customisable. And it's also infinitely extensible. And because, after 40-odd years of using vi/vim, I can't change my muscle memory, and learn a bunch of Emacs control-key combinations, some kind soul has written evil-mode, which layers vim's keybindings on top of Emacs, so I don't have to re-learn keybindings. So, go ahead doing good by bringing the good word of vim to the masses, but spend a little time discovering Emacs on the side. It will be time well spent. Thanks for sharing this video!
The thoughtbot channel has published some useful vim talks for mere mortals that is worth a watch. Assuming I'm not allowed to post links so I will just post the titles of two I found useful: "Mastering the Vim Language" and "How to Do 90% of What Plugins Do (With Just Vim)" . I know it is futile and somewhat meaningless to post suggestions like that, who cares. But sometimes following breadcrumbs left by those who walked the path before you, leads you out of the forest of despair. Just remmber to keep your wit sharp and your eyes open. You might find something useful that others didn't see.
Great overview of Vim James, it should be a great resource for a lot of folks!
Hopefully people will just jump into it and learn the 2% of Vim they need for what they will do 90% of the time with it.
James, I love you like a brother, but man, after 40-odd years of using vi/vim, this year I discovered Emacs and it's a totally different level.
It's not that it's a better editor, because it's not. Vim is clearly the better editor.
But Emacs is like opening a door into a different dimension.
I feel like I am only now beginning to see what's possible with computers and trust me when I say, I've already done a lot with computers.
Emacs is not "polished". But it is "polishable". That is to say it is infinitely customisable. And it's also infinitely extensible.
And because, after 40-odd years of using vi/vim, I can't change my muscle memory, and learn a bunch of Emacs control-key combinations, some kind soul has written evil-mode, which layers vim's keybindings on top of Emacs, so I don't have to re-learn keybindings.
So, go ahead doing good by bringing the good word of vim to the masses, but spend a little time discovering Emacs on the side. It will be time well spent.
Thanks for sharing this video!
I will have to do a video or livestream on Emacs. Thanks. :)
The thoughtbot channel has published some useful vim talks for mere mortals that is worth a watch. Assuming I'm not allowed to post links so I will just post the titles of two I found useful: "Mastering the Vim Language" and "How to Do 90% of What Plugins Do (With Just Vim)" . I know it is futile and somewhat meaningless to post suggestions like that, who cares. But sometimes following breadcrumbs left by those who walked the path before you, leads you out of the forest of despair. Just remmber to keep your wit sharp and your eyes open. You might find something useful that others didn't see.
Thanks for sharing that channel, and I like the sound of those Vim videos you suggested. I'll take a look. :)
As soon as you start programming... your vim/nvim starts getting slow. So I assume you're not a programmer.
You're right, Vim does get slow if you have lot of plugins for programming. I'm mainly writing sh and Bash.