DEFINITIVE LIST OF REASONS TO USE EMACS #shorts

I'm so happy that I'm finally able to share the definitive list of reasons to use #emacs instead of #neovim . It's really an amazing feeling and honor to be able to speak to all of you about this today.

I hope you learn something new from this video.

[stefmyt]

I use emacs everyday, and I could not agree more.

[jahor]

Expected video to be 0 seconds long. Never regretted

[samgould]

Vim is what got me into Linux and using the command line effectively. Everyone should start there after learning the bare basics of programming IMO. It will set you up for life with a career and deep understanding of computers, especially the Unix philosophy. But Emacs is the endgame. I have effectively crafted my own hybrid of a vim/tmux and VScode workflow in Emacs with tiling window manager-like features, and have never been more comfortable or fast. I understand that Neovim is just about as flexible these days, but the culture of Emacs is that you can easily and quickly learn about and modify literally anything. The development velocity is just incredible once you figure things out.

[omarmagdy]

You love to see the intro to algorithms book 😅

[GavinFreeborn]

Sold, best summary of why I switched to emacs 😅

[window.location]

Peek content as always !!!. Love to see this in next neovim conf.

[JohnDegen_aka_Jeehannes]

So very true, TJ, you don't need any reason to use Emacs, it's just so much fun!

[alighahremani]

They are already working on diss-back.

[MaryTheTankGirl]

There is actually a good reason. It makes you love neovim even more.

[augustrum]

Didn't get the message. The main reason to use emacs is that everything is integrated into each other, which leads to a greater productivity. Neovim was my first text editor and a tool that i've tried to push to the max. But eventually it wasn't enough. Switched to emacs a week ago. Never been so euphoric.

[pixelstriko]

Genuine reasons:

- Emacs has a proper GUI, meaning proper fonts, images, emojis, good mouse support, nice visual stuff (rounded corners for menus and GUI stuff like that).

- It also definitively has the best support for org mode (the superior version of markdown).

- really good search ability, vertico gives a really nice 'search' ability for anything, files, buffers, you don't even have to learn it, it just works like how you'd expect.

- magit's git integration, we have magit which is a tool for git integration and it's quite nice.

- even though Emacs keybindings suck you can just use vim ones with evil-mode

- also tabs in vim look ugly af but not in Emacs cuz it's a GUI, aswell as that sidebar tree for seeing the directory.

- other features are equal to vim.

[farzadmf]

Nice one! I got worried TBH when I saw the title 😆

[workingguy]

1. You can brag that you use Emacs to your co-workers or random strangers to the internet and that by default makes you a 10x developer

[felixallistar]

lmao man your skits are top tier. no one really does this for tech stuff that ive seen.

[winter_light]

Give me something as good and polished as Magit, Org-mode, use-package and projectile. Then we will talk.

[friedrichmyers]

Unpopular opinion: Emacs can be the best vim than vim ever was. Evil mode integrates with vim keybindings better than anything in the market

[alexsmith]

Am sure we only got the short version the rest is a fee to watch the full length version

[someman]

I know one even though I don't use Emacs: Key bindings are apparently the same in Bash

[buntun]

Has anyone noticed how neovim has become Emacs?

[tobiadeniji]

I need a reason to try Emacs. I have used Vi from way back when I started using Linux OS, Vim and now Neovim. Neovim is so amazing now with all the cool plugins. I like how the community has grown.