Posted on with tag Emacs
Since I started tinkering with computers and with free software in 2019, I’ve been deeply in the vim camp. The majority of my professors and classmates in uni, however, used emacs or some derivative. So, recently I thought I’d give emacs a shot and see if I could recreate my neovim setup, and I have to say that I think my peers were onto something…
I certainly haven’t explored even a fraction of emacs’ features, and obviously emacs is more than just a text editor, but the text editing is amazing and seems more openly configurable than vim. What rocks is that I don’t have to completely abandon the familiarity of vim binds because emacs can run pretty much everything in “evil” mode (and I get to keep the native emacs binds!)
It has a hugo package system (easy-hugo) that I think absolutely
knocks it out of the park! The same goes for LaTeX (with AUCTeX).
That said, I’m hesitant to commit to using emacs’ built-in web
browser, email client, pdf viewer, &c. because MacOS’s stock apps
work great already (especially with Sidecar), but I’m down to tinker
and I think I’m fully in the emacs camp now!