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Couldn't resist letting myself get nerd-sniped back into #emacs. I never fully left anyway.
This time around I'm determined NOT to try to fit my entire computing life into it and (mostly) just use it as an editor.
Anyway, nice to see how far it's come. So many things are usable out of the box now. My `init.el` is less than 70 lines (cosmetics and bindings, some packages), but thanks to project.el, eglot, and completion-preview, you have an IMO pretty decent coding experience right away.
@citizen428 lol same, like 6 months ago (after like 10 years of not using it much).
It’s come a LONG way. Like actually nuts how good it is now. And there’s been a resurgence of package development too. Like within the last year or so we’ve gotten actually good terminal emulation (ghostel, wrapping Ghostty) and TRAMP (emacs-tramp-rpc).
I however DID get sucked back into doing everything inside the environment. I even wrote my own Matrix client over vacation last month 😂
@citizen428 Similar route here (although I didn't touch it for 25 years) and I'm quite impressed. It is a very decent editor. Still a bit too quick in firing up an editor on remote connections instead of using tramp but it is coming. ;-)
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