Text Editors H (thelemmy.club)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
 

Just for fun and discovery.

Same as for distros and DE/WM.

Share your own, as an image, or just a written list. :)

Mine:

;) I didn't want to wait and see if @misty@lemmy.zip would make a text editor one. So I just made my own. :)

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[–] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm honestly torn between Nvim and Emacs right now. I'm a long time vim user and been on Nvim for 10+ years. The rate at which they change config methods kinda drives me nuts. The change from vimscript to lua, and then a new mixup of lua to another syntax of lua, NEED TO CHANGE THE LUA!!!!!! It's too much. I really did a yearly config rewrite for a while because the plugin ecosystem moves lightning fast. Now most of the time I feel like I'm using a half baked config solution even on a new from scratch setup.

Emacs feels like a breath of fresh air. I'm still working out the kinks but it feels like it just works when I tell it to do something. I'm not using evil mode. I dove head first into vanilla and it's been really nice. ELisp is wild. I have no fucking clue what I'm doing with it, but it all seems to be working. The fact that it took me 3 days to get my Emacs setup to where I am with Nvim and beyond was a great start to the switch. I'm really enjoying Emacs and there's definitely a past version of me going 'What the fuck' right now.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I really did a yearly config rewrite for a while

    In my experience, which seems to be identical experience of many, including the one who got me into emacs, emacs config re-writes tend happen every decade, rather than every year. Nice and peaceful like that. :)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    That's refreshing to hear. I really got tired of messing with my nvim config all the time. I'm in that state with Emacs right now but I hope that once I'm done it's a set it and forget it experience.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago

    I hope that once I’m done it’s a set it and forget it experience.

    While that's possible, there are also so many things to entice one into adding more.

    But that's still much more pleasant a blessing, making changes because of something you want, rather than because of something the developers did.

    Though, as for "done"... many emacs users [especially those who got really infected with emacs] may tell you it's never done. ;)

    It's plausible though.

    Some say the default config is, for them, done.

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