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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Pedro Del Gallego <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Just for the record. I was a huge fan of Vim, but now I am an Emacs >>> heretic. I find that emacs integrates better with my tools and >>> workflow, but that is just a personal opinion. > >> Just out of curiosity, how did this happen? I dream in Vim. > > I started using Emacs when I decided to learn a little bit of Lisp for > fun after reading some Paul Graham's easies, and indeed there is > nothing like Slime to interact between the Lisp and the editor. > > At the same time I found that Vim was not playing nice with my other > tools. I like the fact that I do a lot of stuffs using Emacs beside > programming. I like the way it handle VCS, git, irc channels, email, > ... > > After learned a little bit of Lisp I felt very frustrated with > VimScript, not that emacs lisp is perfect but, for me is more fun and > I am more efficient coding in elisp than in VimScript, because of > that I had a more customize editor in emacs than in Vim > > The final deal breaker was when I discovered org-mode [1]. I can't > think a better way to organize my mental process that org-mode, > specially after customize some function to fit my process. I use it > for almost everything: todo list, taking notes, agenda, time tracking, > and even as an easy spreadsheets. > > Definitely, Emacs is not for everybody but, so far, it's the best tool for me. > > [1] http://orgmode.org/ > > >> Are you using emacs Viper mode? > > I used for a long time, but as time passed I added a lot of > customizations so is not really viper anymore. :) > > Just should give it a try, even if it is only for fun. You will learn > a lot of stuff that will make you a better vim user. > > > > -- > ------------------------------------- > Pedro Del Gallego > > Email : [email protected] > > -- > To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
