I'm Replacing All Of My Programs...With Emacs

I've been using Emacs again and I have to admit, it is a rather charming piece of software. And the more I use it, and the more plugins that I discover, the more I just want to replace all of my programs with Emacs alternatives.

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[Pakanahymni]

Emacs is the operating system and Linux is just its bootloader.

[jumpman]

Breaking News!: Linux cult leader once again goes back to emacs, causing an emotional rollercoaster to his followers who went back to vim after he left emacs few months back.

[spicybaguette]

They should actually just make an operating system of Emacs and cut out the Unix BLOAT

[tokiomutex]

The wifi driver isn't working properly, gonna replace it with emacs.

[dougbeney]

Yay, DT's back at Emacs. Learning Emacs I had multiple periods of hating and quitting it, before really liking it.

[srndsnd]

Your org mode videos completely changed my workflow and it is slowly eating my life. Glad to see you making videos on it again.

[SenthilBabuji]

Once an Emacs user always an Emacs user. Derek thought he could go back and realized he can't. Emacs is dope.

[tronus]

My Thinkpad x61 2.4gz from 2009 gets 8 hours of battery life using the console and emacs. It's great! I use it for jazz transcription and notate using Lilypond (a scripting/"programming" language for engraving music).

[rdp]

Emacs is great. It's what I was taught to use during Uni days when studying Computer Science. It did everything we needed particularly when coding. Didn't need anything else! Honestly if you keep using it you will love it more an more and Vim will become your alternative text editor. Don't get me wrong Vi is great too but not at the same level as emacs. Yes emacs is a little more bloated than Vi but thats mainly due to all the added plugins etc. I've been using emacs since 1995... One thing I still use as an alternative to emails though is Pine. Still love pine for some reason so generally open that up instead.

[thanawatt]

Hey DT, first off, thank you so much for your videos! I've recently started using Linux, and was able to get Arch Linux and XMonad setup thanks to your videos!

[TheCocoaDaddy]

I first used emacs in college and loved it! The "escape" commands in vi drove me crazy. When I was in college, people either used Bourne Shell and vi or C Shell and emacs. :) lol Thanks for posting!

[redlom]

I have been doing emacs for the past few years and now the only way to take it away from me is to pull from my cold dead hands.

[capability-snob]

"eshell is an elisp repl" it's actually an integrated shell. Try using grep --recursive from it - the output goes to a new buffer which you can use to open each file at the matching line

[MichaelAMalone]

Thanks Derek, I love it when you show up with a gem... just one aspect of your presentation of Emacs which showed the preview of your pic's sold me.... Lol's Now I have another cool thing to explore, learn, and use....

[marioschroers]

Commenting while watching. First off: This wallpaper is incredible. Excellent.

I didn't check out DOOM Emacs just yet, but kudos and respect to the developer. I'm getting increasingly obsessed with automating my workflow, be it by learning about regex inside vim (neovim user here), be it by streamlining shell stuff in scripts, be it by learning how to Automate The Boring Stuff With Python (excellent read by Al Sweigart by the way).

I love seeing you slowly turning into an educated programmer. All your excitement for the Haskell language seems so genuine. I can relate to this in so many ways. Linux, and only Linux, makes it possible. I never guessed I'd ever dive into these things seriously.

Thank you for sharing all your computing experiences, thank you for sharing your passion with us.

Keep it up, Derek!

[lucminax]

Nice, absolutely recommend keeping at the Emacs discovery, it's amazing and keeps surprising me to this day

[jeetadityachatterjee]

I was scared that I was never going to see that face again.. but it came back and its face was more radiant than ever!

[Gavinconaghty]

Wow! Love it. I have been using emacs for a while and still learning. Thanks DT

[lawrencedoliveiro]

One of the handy things I have done in Emacs is define custom commands to jump to the next or previous line with the same indentation level as the present one. This is handy for Python programming, since as you may know, Python doesn’t have statement brackets that you could target with the standard bracketing-symbol commands.

[gaurangshukla]

The thing that I found really interesting about org-mode tables is they are like spreadsheet you can perform all sort of crazy stuff with the data.