Why do I like Emacs more than VS Code? And if I like Emacs more, why am I still using VS Code?
#TEXMACS VS EMACS CODE#
Why is Emacs taking over VS Code in my dev toolkit?
I am not yet finished learning Lisp, but some teachings have already come in handy, for example finding files on startup to have them ready as buffers. To take customization to the next step, you’ll need to learn Emacs Lisp. It is a collection of Emacs packages and libraries organized by category. My favorite place to customize Emacs is the Awesome Emacs GitHub repo. Now I almost can’t edit a piece of text without using Emacs keybindings.Ī key binding that, for instance, has positively impacted my workflow is C-u n (ctrl + u), since it allows me to repeat a command of my choice for n times. When I was reading the quickstart Emacs file for the first time, navigating the editor felt difficult. It can be your browser, terminal, editor, launcher, image editor, traffic interceptor, and the list goes on for whatever comes to your mind.Īlso, the great news is that Emacs has been around for a lot of time, and there’s plenty of open source code that you can use and integrate into your settings. The most important thing I learned is that Emacs is programmable with Emacs Lisp.
I am in no way an expert with the editor, nor am I planning to become one. I was searching for an editor that I could (easily) turn into everything I wanted, and Emacs seemed to me like a better match. I don’t know both Emacs and Vim deeply enough to have a say on which one is better (if there is one that’s better than the other), but this Stack Overflow answer (along with other answers) pointed to me that Emacs is more customizable than Vim, which is, on the other hand, faster and easier to learn. I don’t want to start a war on this topic.
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