Emacs

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+title: Emacs
+date: 2024-08-14
+tags:
+  - computers
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+I'm back on Emacs.
+
+Somebody on the Something Awful Forums pointed out that VSCode will only be cool
+for as long as Microsoft cares about it.
+Given the recent banning of my LinkedIn account,
+I figured it was time to go back to Emacs.
+
+Emacs 29 really did make a lot of improvements.
+
+I picked it back up almost instantly,
+and I've already learned some new things.
+I thought I would miss multi-cursor,
+so I installed an emacs thing to do it,
+but I'm using the built-in search/replace mechanisms more.
+
+It has a package system now!
+And they introduced a related thing that makes my ~/.emacs/init.el
+pretty neat and tidy.
+
+Eshell is still pretty great,
+I've been using that quite a bit.
+And they've got this new treesitter stuff that works great in Go,
+is a little crashy in JavaScript.
+I'm expecting a big improvement in Emacs 30.
+
+This is all in Windows most of the time,
+although I'm using it in Linux too.
+
+Anyway, I'm back on Emacs now.
+I think I'm probably done trying out new editors.