From 4362e4401bcba9867ffade28174252f3a0bd0c1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neale Pickett Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 21:19:27 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Emacs --- content/blog/2024/08-14-emacs/index.md | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/blog/2024/08-14-emacs/index.md diff --git a/content/blog/2024/08-14-emacs/index.md b/content/blog/2024/08-14-emacs/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..25cfbba --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2024/08-14-emacs/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +--- +title: Emacs +date: 2024-08-14 +tags: + - computers +--- + +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.