Can be quirky, but easy enough to use once you learn the quirks. I use longer names, and dynamic abbreviations help me type less, without having to install some full-blown IDE with lengthy source code parsing. Among the nicer features are (in addition to your list):ĭynamic abbreviations. I use a vanilla emacs with a few additions. But you are not seeing the changes with each keypress, it is not interactive. Yes, I know, everything that they do can be done with macros. As you can see if you try Kakoune, it is a much more straight-forward, simple and interactive alternative to other text-editing activities such as macros, search and replace, etc. I mean natively, in a way that works well with its other commands. IMO Emacs, the text editor, only lacks one major feature: multiple cursors. With those commands, you can then get the equivalent ivy-occur buffer with C-c C-o, which is nice. Although for more interactivity, on most cases, I prefer the real-time display of matches of some ivy/counsel commands like counsel-locate. canceling the region with C-g, or canceling a M-x command, etc. Macros I don't like so much because there's always something that interrupts the recording of the longer ones (the most useful ones.). I find it much more comfortable and straight-forward. I also love Vim, but overall I think I prefer non-modal editing.
I like that it is not modal (and non-text-object oriented). That, and being free as in beer + being the editor of choice of my professor or TA. Obviously I had to live with the quirkiness of what I'd known as "files" were now called "buffers" (but still somehow also files?) and the completely arbitrary keybindings, but it was FREE and (with colored text) basically a professional IDE! Later we learned it was called "syntax highlighting", except in Emacs where it was called "font lock". Plus, Vim was a purely terminal application back then, so Emacs with Motif was a little more similar to the MS Windows computer experience I'd had up until then.Īnyway, Emacs had colored text, which - coming from a Notepad background - you can imagine how awesome that was. A professor (or TA, I can't remember) told us freshmen in no uncertain terms that we were to learn how to use Emacs during his course, so (eager to gain his favor & precious support hours) we heard and obeyed. Of the capable text editing options available, the granddaddies Emacs and Vim ruled supreme on campus. NetBeans were but a glimmer in the eye of its creator, as far as Java IDEs went we'd barely heard of something called BlueJ. 'Twas the early 2000s, around the time when IntelliJ and Eclipse took its first fledgling steps and I my first Java programming course.
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