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In what sense? I apologize if I offended you. Just to be clear - don't share your config, experiments, packages or whatever with me specifically - simply consider making them public. Don't l…

> I wrote a lot of lisp making Emacs work Share the Emacs packages you wrote. I'm saying this unironically - someone might be interested to keep improving them, maybe they'd find some int…

> You say like it's some kind of feature Oh, you just have no idea. It feels absolutely empowering and immensely liberating to have access to EVERY single line of code running and affecting yo…

Yeah, I admit, fair complaints. Emacs can be tricky to render things exactly how you like - I use it on Mac, Linux, GUI and terminal and do have different semantics for each. The tradeoff is that Emac…

> I've installed emacs now on I never had what you describe. The variability there could be almost random - which version of Emacs you're installing? How are you installing it? Are you tr…

> I have a job to get done Yeah, it so totally fair to hear it from a Haskellite, I'm so convinced now... /s "I have a job to get done, and my job isn't learning category theory…

> VSCode is familiar in its UX That's by design. It must have appealing looks and employ every trick from psychology books to get you to try it and keep using it. You don't have to be a g…

That's not the point - McDonald's has 40000 joints - the most popular restaurant in the world. Still doesn't make it the best food option. Yes, Emacs is not popular, but if you look dee…

> one click gives you a perfectly modern fast editor with a smorgasbord of great extensions that just work I use over 300 hundred packages in my Emacs setup. I honestly not sure if I can install e…

> For me, VSCode implements everything that I've always expected from Emacs/Vim. Good. For me, VSCode unlikely will ever become anything that I expect from my text editor. For coding, s…

> requires an enormous amount of hacking to make a usable IDE. When you're using it for one, specific purpose, like an IDE for specific language(s), then yes, sure, it may feel like that. Yet …

IntelliJ is an amazing feat of software engineering, there's no denying that. I'm not saying that to make you (or any other WebStorm/Pycharm/etc. user) feel better - I know that fr…

> incredibly easy compared to getting them to edit some vim/emacs config Yet, extending just about any functionality of Emacs for an experienced user is far simpler than in anything else -…

I second that. Clojure is really a great joy to use. It may take a while to shift into the mindset, especially for someone new to Lisp, but after a while it's an absolute delight. A great degree …

Russian equivalent of this idiom sounds like "skillful surgeon helps a bad dancer". Even though it sounds confusing, what it really means is "a bad dancer blames his balls"

> Why is it not more popular? Probably because it's difficult to build simplistic intuition around them in languages that don't have robust built-in mechanisms that enable that kind of th…

> "no non-deterministic tests" These tests can be made determenistic. Shrinking to the minimal reproducing case, is always deterministic. Also you can [re]start the tests with the speci…

Yes I lost my cool for a moment, we have a history with that HNemer. He made it his full-time job to troll, to the point that it makes me want to stay away from engaging any conversations on this site…

I'm not making shit up on the spot nor am I attributing any metrics to vim or emacs specifically or how riced should they be, I'm simply telling you the facts to counter-argue your point of:…

the real tinkerers skim through that shit in text-based browsers - using their choice of a font and a color theme.

> Riced out Neovim/emacs setup doesn't and hasn't ever led to quality software in any shape or form, neither it ever will. Hmm... excuse me? Linux kernel - most contributors use vim&…

"The Idea" here I think is in the revelation of the ultimate preeminence of text in a programmer's life. Plain text deserves our utmost attention, yet many programmers overlook its sign…

Yup, totally. Emacs users been impressing juniors for fifty, and vimmers for over thirty years. Pretty much ALL software was ultra-productively done just this decade. Nobody really wrote anything befo…

Haha. What's really cool about eww, that you can just open any page, and then change the major-mode of it - I read org-mode, markdown readme's like that, or explore CI logs, etc.

I don't want to sound like "advising", because long-term recommendations often carry the personal weight with them- whatever I tell you worked (or didn't) for me had an effect on m…

Do you really have to be a jerk? Or you were dropped in your infancy and you just can't fucking help it? Go seek some professional help maybe, it really hurts to see someone being so miserable.

> we're here to edit text though, I thought? It seems you're missing the point - that example is 'reductio ad absurdum' - a showcase of the logical extreme of capabilities, not …

r/emacs discussion - https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1ogaf4t/piping_inout... …

> NOTHING is going to happen while the Republicans control congress, period For anyone interested, for the past 30 years, Republicans dominated for 22 years in total, while Democrats only 8.