Emacs

311 readers

3 users here now

A community for the timeless and infinitely powerful editor. Want to see what Emacs is capable of?!

Get Emacs

Windows
Mac OS X
GNU/Linux and BSD (Just get it from your distribution's package manager)

Rules

Posts should be emacs related
Be kind please
Yes, we already know: Google results for "emacs" and "vi" link to each other. We good.

Emacs Resources

Emacs Tutorials

Useful Emacs configuration files and distributions

Quick pain-saver tip

Put the Caps Lock key to better use!

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

i wanna try emacs (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

15 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hello there .
I am using as my OS devuan gnu+linux .
The point is I like philosophy of Unix using like tmux + nvim + mutt .
and I love the vi keybings so much ..

Sometimes I am thinking to switch to gnu emacs .. but I feel that I will find some difficulties
and I am afraid .

Is there a easy way to use emacs ?
can someone help or give me some YT videos to watch to have a good idea about emacs ?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's hard to convince people but, Emacs is simple. Have you tried showing your grandmother how to use a computer? Emacs has it's own way a little, but it's a simple way. So long as you don't commit to it before you're comfortable with it, and so long as you don't install packages except magit, Emacs won't come at a cost.

Also can we all agree that tmux nvim and mutt don't quite follow the Unix philosophy? Compared to Emacs, one could say Emacs is closer to the Unix philosophy (until you bloat it)