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I've gotten to a point were i equally love !vim and !emacs, is that even possible? #iamaweirdo
about 11 months ago from web- francisco e jurado monzon repeated this.
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sure, why not? Both vim and emacs are “real editors”. How do you manage the transition between the different usage styles?
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It's actually not that difficult. Vim is in my fingers and i know a couple of Emacs combinations and use M-x and tab for the others.
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So you don’t use the emacs navigation commands at all? Or do you use something like viper-mode?
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No i use the emacs way. (b)ack, (f)orward, (p)revious, (n)ext and so on is not so difficult to remember.
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@notonspeedboy wow, kudos to that!
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something which might be interesting to you: http://ur1.ca/9rnji http://ur1.ca/9rnjj — control-lock-mode: modal with emacs bindings.
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I mostly use control-lock-mode when correcting with flyspell: , for finding the next error, . for cycling through corrections.
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Thanks! It's a nice function, but the thanks is mostly because i learned a lot about emacs extensions while i was installing it!
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@notonspeedboy glad to :) — what I linked to is the public part of my .emacs.d :)
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I noticed, but it was the first time i installed an extension and i also found out about switchkeys for things like auto-fill. Very handy!
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Emacs reminds me of Vim because the first couple of times i used either of them they scared me away, but once that part was over the (1/2)
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fun started. Right now i'm having fun tweaking Emacs to my liking and it's actually easier than i expected! (2/2)
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