Aloha Alan,
Alan E. Davis <lngn...@gmail.com> writes:
It is interesting that an old timer like yourself would reach
for
Spacemacs. I haven't, mostly because I don't think I need the
modal model
of Vi. The keybindings of Emacs or so convenient and
intelligent I find
them to be enough. Here's where I might have spent more time in
the early
days learning the basics better. One of the things I like about
Emacs is
that I can dance around a page of text, in a manner that the
commercially
produced text editors and word processors I know have not dared
to
implement. We are locked in to a dumbed down interface in all
the software
we encounter. I cannot think of one example just now, but maybe
the way
one can move back and forth over characters and words. I never
learned Vi,
except to be able to edit a simple config file if need be.
I know I am over my head, and I have been so for the 30-ish
years I have
been using Emacs and for the time I have used Org-mode. It is
more than I
can do to keep up with the newer complexities that are cropping
up. Yet,
just like the plain text files, and the LaTeX source for my one
publication, a lexicon of animal names, they live on while
documents using
the high priced tools are not longer readable or editable. And
through all
the changes, my little utilities for editing things that only I
could
probably care about, and I would not expect anyone to care to
learn---they
still work today. I love it!
FYI, from another old-timer in over his head, Spacemacs has a simple option to
enable Emacs key bindings. You don't need to use the modal bindings.
hth,
Tom
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Thomas S. Dye
https://tsdye.online/tsdye
