emacs

[acdw]

E M A C S

I'll kick us off -- is there a phpbb.el ??

[owl]

i'm emacs curious and i spent a summer with spacemacs, but it was heavy and opinionated and i'm aware that emacs shines best when you spend the time to configure it the way you want it. i think there are like four things i'm very used to with my current editor that i just need to sit down and replicate in emacs and go from there

[acdw]

Totally agree -- with all Emacs "distributions," you're basically learning to use someone else's Emacs configuration.

What four features are you used to ?

[owl]

- multiple cursors
- fuzzy search file opener
- multiple panes
... MAYbe more but that's what comes to mind immediately. i know i can use something like fzf on command line and plop into emacs from there, and i can use tmux or built-in iTerm panes, but i kinda just want it all self-contained

[neonio]

my favorite emacs feature is the calculator. it does algebra! and converts units! You can even calculate derivatives. I owe it my degree and I'm sure i'm not alone!

[acdw]

fuzzy search and multiple panes are definitely doable (emacs has famously powerful and complex window managing capabilities), and i know there *are* multiple-cursor plugins. never used em tho

[archenoth]

- multiple cursors
- fuzzy search file opener
- multiple panes
... MAYbe more but that's what comes to mind immediately. i know i can use something like fzf on command line and plop into emacs from there, and i can use tmux or built-in iTerm panes, but i kinda just want it all self-contained

oh wow! you have...very similar opinions to me when it comes to the things I like to have! aha

the config i eventually landed on is basically just "what if vanilla emacs if it looked a little nicer, and had a few extra niceties that were language-agnostic"

[owl]

- multiple cursors
- fuzzy search file opener
- multiple panes
... MAYbe more but that's what comes to mind immediately. i know i can use something like fzf on command line and plop into emacs from there, and i can use tmux or built-in iTerm panes, but i kinda just want it all self-contained

oh wow! you have...very similar opinions to me when it comes to the things I like to have! aha :love:

the config i eventually landed on is basically just "what if vanilla emacs if it looked a little nicer, and had a few extra niceties that were language-agnostic"

excellent :> do you have some package recommendations? admittedly i haven't done a lot of searching myself yet but if you have some you particularly enjoy i'd love a head start

[neonio]

vertico and orderless are essential packages, to me

[archenoth]

oh! i personally like helm-projectile for fuzzy file search (i have it bound to ctrl+p to fuzzy find files, because i am a heretic)

multiple-cursors is also just a package you can install to get those! though i like to change its bindings to be more sublime/vscode-style (because i am a heretic)

if you like, this is what my setup looks like if you wanted to poke at it/steal some ideas!

also, i am a heretic