May I introduce you to the simple life of just using whatever text editor and terminal that comes presintalled on your favoraite distro? It's ridiculous how far this can get you, I've been enjoying gnome text ediotor with gnome terminal.

You really should use vim though.

I’ve been using emacs for work for years because the proprietary language I have to work in was set up with emacs as the default editor. I bitched and moaned when I first started because I was used to more modern solutions.

When they finally got VS Code support working…I stayed with emacs. Stockholm Syndrome, I suspect. But I know what I’m doing in emacs. I’m comfortable.

Neovim with Nvchad is what finally made me ditch pretty much all other IDEs. As much as I used to like Jetbrains, they've pivoted to vibe coding so hard that I can't justify using their IDEs.

I use helix btw

Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc

Save yourself the trouble and just skip ahead: real programmers use butterflies

I may be crazy, but for regular text file, VIM is usually my go to. But, because of tag auto completion Bluefish has been my HMTL/CSS editor for a while. Most other things are in VIM. Bash? VIM. Python? VIM. C? Trash bin! Did not like the C class I took last quarter!

Exception being things like .docx or .odt files that have no business being opened in VIM.

Use micro after everyone makes fun of you for using nano

emacs kicks ass

It becomes a tool for doing whatever you are doing at the moment.

Say goodbye to your pinkie

The problem with Emacs is that it sucks but there is nothing better, and you are getting stuck with it forever. Welcome!

I used to use Neovim until I got tired of it and switched to Helix. I tried Emacs for a bit but turns out that Helix does everything I need it to do without any extra configuration.

And of course I use caps:swapescape because I am not reaching all the way to the Escape key all the time.

Emacs and (Neo)Vim are a bit too overwhelming for me. I've tried Neovim for a relatively long time, but I felt kind of overloaded with the vast amount of features and plugins it has. I've tried Emacs a bit, but its complexity always scared me (not to mention it uses its own version of Lisp, a language that is notorious for its ability of creating new language features on the fly, hence even more complexity). I've been using Helix, and I couldn't be happier. I've realized that I don't really care much about editor customization, and that what I was looking for was just a cool modal editor with some useful features (such as file picker, LSP, tree-sitter, multiple cursors, ...). The keybinds are also easier to grasp, as fewer of them feel arbitrary compared to Vim. In Vim and Emacs, it feels like you can do everything, while in Helix, it feels more like you can do everything the developers think that might be useful for you. Who knows, maybe I'll try again Emacs and (Neo)Vim again in the far future, but I don't feel like it for now.

One of my year goals is to change from vsc to vim hehe

:q no w just q

Emacs is love, emacs is life

:q!

I keep thinking that as I use vim, I'll feel the need to learn more commands, but I hardly do anything except:

• q, wq, or q!, quit with or without saving
• i, insert
• set:paste, preserves spacing
• Shift-insert, pastes if shift-ctrl-v doesn't work
• / , search for a string (iirc, don't really need it much).

What are your vim GOTOs?

Good, good! You're on the right way! But remember, there is a world outside your Emacs, don't forget about it.