On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 22:11 +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> Why did you make the change?
* vi keys on Dvorak are weird
* I wanted to explore Lisp
* I wanted a challenge
* I wanted to experience what Stallman uses all the time
> Are there any specific advantages?
* best for editing Lisp code
* closest Synaptic-like GUI front-end to GNU Guix, so far
* best for editing Info manuals
* babel in Org Mode lets you edit code samples in your documents
as if they're their own files, with syntax highlighting
appropriate for the snippet's language.
* babel in Org Mode facilitates literate programming and immediate
documentation/reformatting of a program's results into, for
example, an Org Mode table, which can export to an HTML/LaTeX
table
* recursive grep in Emacs shell is VERY interactive, returning a
list of links that automatically open the file and place your
cursor on the exact point of the search result
* narrowing (Control-x n n) lets you focus on sections of a large
file without distractions
* Web Mode lets you have proper indentation and highlighting rules
for files that have a mix of languages - CSS, JavaScript and
HTML.
* If you need to type weird characters not supported by your
system's input method system, you can quickly whip up an Emacs
Quail input method with a simple list key-value pairs. I've
done it for Phoenecian and ancient Egyptian before. I've also
done it for the Wikipedia phonetic spelling system for English.
* You can use multiple cursors in the same buffer, allowing you to
reproduce a lot of work and make complex region selections
* Every time I save my HTML files, the timestamp is updated.
* Emacs has a command to convert CSV text to an org table, which
can be converted to HTML
* you can make it behave exactly like Vim, but with even more
features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWD1Fpdd4Pc
* ... (I'll stop here.)
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Caleb Herbert
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