On 6/21/24 08:45, Daniel M Gessel wrote:
To make this work for me, I've added what I call "workspaces" to Emacs, which are just Emacs window configurations loaded from files. I have an ever growing startup set (which I even reload fairly frequently to get back to a known work environment).
I hate emacs, but my fingers know it, so we have reached an understanding.
I appreciate that emacs is so good about recovering sessions——because sometimes things *do* crash.
One of the nice things about emacs is it is available so widely, I can use it on some slow ssh to a remote box and I can use it locally with actual drop-down menus. It can even be the same emacs: start in a terminal, then make-frame-on-display, over ssh, even. Start it up inside screen and I can even reconnect later. (But have to have emacs-lucid installed, else losing the X window crashes emacs.)
For the longest time I held off customizing emacs, I don't want to teach my fingers stuff that then isn't present in whatever-login. Well, these days for programming IDEs are kinda necessary, and the ones I have tried are mostly all terrible. Having menus isn't the same as having designed the UI.
So recently I have been turning emacs into my IDE. I have things working pretty well for Rust, recently I added C. If I find myself doing Python again I suppose I'll try to do it for Python, too. Fun to have the same program, editing both Rust and C at the same time, knowing both languages. I don't *do* both at the same time, but I sometimes have buffers from each language open at the same time.
When I was an undergrad, Emacs was considered huge, a burden to the multi-user Sun workstations in the computer lab.
I was an early Macintosh fan (ah, the good old days…things have gone done hill: MS did a bad job copying the Mac, kids grew up on MS, then got jobs at Apple), and once upon a time I wanted multiple windows, so I fired up multiple copies of emacs! I killed the Sun work station.
The standard at that company was emacs on 80x25 serial port video terminals, it seemed the main Suns there handled that well.
Today, compared to a web browser, Emacs is tight and efficient!
Oh, my god, yes. My emacs gets big when I have bash running in a buffer for a long time, but nothing compared to a web browser doing almost nothing.
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