'(Why Emacs?)
- Better Multi-Font Support
- Org & Outline Mode
- Better REPL integration
- More of Clojure community is into Emacs
- Encourages keeping a journal
- Emacs is a workflow
- Some Emacsen have en eschewed the shell
- Elisp is a lisp, and that’s beautiful
- Asciidoc looks amazing!
- Presentations
- Dired
- Better linting and spell checking
- Magit
- Modes
- StackOverflow (sx) mode
- Configure a DSL for others
Audience: sysadmins
"Evil mode? What’s that?" says a colleague as he glances at my screen.
"Oh, it’s a vi emulator for emacs. I just wanted to, uh, see what’s on the other side."
Well, here’s an explanation of what really behind my thinking about switching over to the dark side.
Better Multi-Font Support
Org & Outline Mode
Better REPL integration
More of Clojure community is into Emacs
vs Vim’s 15%. That alone doesn’t necessarily warrant a switch, but it does mean that much more effort is going into refining the Emacs tools. http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2016/1/28/state-of-clojure-2015-survey-results
Encourages keeping a journal
Emacs is a workflow
Start out in my journal, pull up a blog entry, edit a presentation, hack some Clojure, remote-connect to a server.
Some Emacsen have en eschewed the shell
As much as I love Zsh, I’d be okay with letting it go if my editor could do all it does.
Elisp is a lisp, and that’s beautiful
Asciidoc looks amazing!
Presentations
Dired
Better linting and spell checking
Support for couldn’t.
Magit
Modes
Look at markdown as example.
StackOverflow (sx) mode
Configure a DSL for others
There have been times that I’ve written a very simple DSL that is custom colored to show different parts. With vim, it wasn’t possible to tell an content person to just install vim and my plugin. With emacs, it is possible thanks to it’s short learning curve to do simple editing.