Do you work with emacs ?

[frenchn00b]

Emacs for X or Emacs for console (no X) is a very developed and advanced application for coding, txt, ... and many more.

It is quite difficult to learn it.

Some of you are using it?

You like emacs?

[chris200x9]

I use it in console, but I do not use advanced features mainly type

[Icehuck]

MicroEMACS is rather nice, not that GNU crud.


I have a feeling a war will start here.

[JDShu]

My school made me learn it, so I use it out of habit.

[RiceMonster]

I tried to learn it once. I was using the X version, and I noticed you could play tetris, so I thought "screw this, I`m playing tetris".

[unknownPoster]

I use it to experiment with Lisp and SLIME.

[matthew.ball]

I think emacs is awesome!

Though, I'm still fairly new to using emacs (I have been using emacs -nox for a good 6-8 months now). I'm learning new things every day with emacs. It's the best!

[juancarlospaco]

I use my own text editor (http://www.tecnicoslinux.com.ar/livecd/edipy_1_all.deb).

[Frak]

I tried to learn it once. I was using the X version, and I noticed you could play tetris, so I thought "screw this, I`m playing tetris".
Hahaha

I use MicroEmacs, because, and I'm sorry to all those who worked on it, GNUEmacs is a pile of crap.

[Daisuke_Aramaki]

Agree with icehuck. Microemacs is great, and its my editor of choice on windows.

i predominantly use vim for most text editing work, but i am more comfortable using emacs for latex, with auctex.

[Cuddles McKitten]

Why would I use emacs when I have the overwhelmingly superior vim installed?

[k64]

Emacs is showing its age. Me? I prefer GEdit and Kate.

[Frak]

I'm with this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVTWCPoUt8w#t=55m0s

[MaxIBoy]

For text-only situations (for example, working on code via SSH at latencies too great for X11 forwarding to be practical,) I use either Emacs or Nano. Nano is good if you just want to make a 1-line change and exit, Emacs is good if you want to keep something running for a longer programming session.

In a graphical environment I prefer Gedit (with all the fancy plugins, of course.)

[lostinxlation]

For text editting, I only use vi or vim.
I only used Emacs to read/write Newsgroup and emails many years ago.

[jpkotta]

I use GNU Emacs. I'd agree that by default it sucks, but that's not the point. I think Ubuntu sucks by default too, because I don't like Gnome and Kubuntu is never quite as polished. But I can install the packages I do like, because Ubuntu is a great platform. Such is (GNU) Emacs. The worst part about it is that the barrier to changing it is so low that I do it all the time.

I just tried out Microemacs (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/editors/uemacs/uemacs.git), and I didn't like it. What's the advantage over, say, jmacs (joe) or jove?

[n0dix]

I use emacs since 1 year ago. It have pros and cons but still is my editor to programming.

[ad_267]

I've never used Emacs. Vim works great for me.

[Mornedhel]

I'm an Emacs user all the way. I was converted to Emacs the day I discovered tramp mode to edit files through SSH, sudo, etc.

I use it for auctex, EMMS (with MPD), Wanderlust (mail client), org-mode, sometimes even to edit text, and as my main IDE (support for dozens of languages, support for several version control systems, context-aware variable completion, the Great Unified Debugger, etc.).

Does MicroEmacs support elisp ? Most of those Emacs lightweight clones only clone the key bindings and forfeit all the extensibility.

[iponeverything]

I love emacs. It is the only editor I use.

There is practically nothing that can be done in a terminal or to a text file, that emacs does not have a mode for!


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s o r
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m s i k
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I typed that by going into picture mode using the arrows to place the cursor doing a ctrl-c ' write north east and ctrl-c \ to write south west. :) geeky.. ok -- but little emacs-fu goes a long way.

[Tibuda]

Vim for me. I don't really need another operational system.