 So about a week ago, I finally bit the bullet and decided I was going to switch to Emacs now this came after a lot of pressure from certain elements of the community that watched my videos and I was very resistant of it because I don't know why I'd want to and At the end of the day, I was very happy with them but I decided to do it because as a YouTube content creator Which is a weird thing to say. I need content in order to be able to maintain that title. So I did decide to switch to Emacs and I've now done been in Emacs for a week now. I have Not spent a ton of time in Emacs because just the nature of this past week has been very busy But I do have some initial thoughts. So that's what I'm going to be talking about today The first thing I will say is that this I'm not going to stop using Emacs after this week Everybody who said a week was not enough was completely right a week isn't enough and I'll talk more about why that is as we go along in this video my first thought on Vanilla Emacs, which is what I installed to begin with is that it's basically unusable and I say that because the key bindings are Horrendous, they're just really bad now. Those are you who use vanilla Emacs. We'll say But Matt or if I'm gonna be Muda, but Matt I've always wanted to do that you can just change the key bindings and That's true, but I did not want to go through and just imitate them, which is what I would do anyways Now some of the key bindings would have been fine And I would have learned them but a lot of the key bindings I would have changed or I would have installed evil mode Which would have negated the reason to use vanilla them or vanilla Emacs in the first place So after a day of messing around with vanilla them or vanilla Emacs, I'm gonna do that a lot I Installed do me max now. We all know that DT is a big fan of do me max So I watched his videos and was able to install it and get up and running And that's what I've been on now for probably six days or so five or six days and My initial thoughts on that experience is that I'm just using it like I always used them it's for me the way I've used it in the last week is that it's just a text editor and it's a good one, but There is apparently so much more that I need to explore and that is the overwhelming feeling I have right now with Emacs is that I've Not even scratched the surface of what it can do because literally all I'm using for is a text editor and Maybe that's fine But if all I ever get out of Emacs is that it's a text editor Then there was no reason to switch to it to begin with because them was a perfectly fine Text editor and script editor and all that stuff So the next week that I'm going to be spending with Emacs is going to be delving into the things that make Emacs special things like org mode things like The special note-taking plugins that it has I can't remember what the name is it starts with R Something I don't know Anyways, those are the two things I'm going to take a look at because I would love To see what the replacement for something like VimWiki would be inside Emacs because I use VimWiki a lot I mean like all my notes for videos are in VimWiki. I Keep notes for all of the things in VimWiki. I use VimWiki a lot So if I can find a way to replace VimWiki inside of Emacs, that'd be cool now I would also like to take a look at the email client because Neil has stopped working for me for some reason. I don't know why so it'd be interesting to try the email client inside of Emacs and I wouldn't mind trying some of the other features that I discover as well So I'm going to stick with Emacs for at least another week. Maybe two before I make another video about it as of right now, I have no other thoughts on it other than do Emacs does an okay job of Imitating them enough where I really haven't noticed now. I will say that I Prefer using Emacs in the terminal and honestly I had no clue you could do this until somebody in One of the comments sections from the video last week told me I could do this and I much prefer Using Emacs in the terminal but that even further solidifies my interest in using it just like Vim because it to me and I Actually have a an alias here that allows me to use it just like I would use Vim Except for instead of VI use E and it just opens up Emacs like that now I haven't installed the Emacs daemon yet So it is a little slow, but I'm not all that worried about that. I don't care But again because I'm using it in the terminal it just makes it feel so much like them So over the next week, I'm still gonna use it like this But I'm also gonna like I said explore some of the more built-in features I also want to look at some of the I don't know if you call them plugins or something But whatever that will make Emacs More than what I currently use it as because that's probably the biggest thing I have right now is that if it's just this Which we know it's not but if if it's just this for me Then there was no reason for me to use it because it does everything right now that Vim always did and I prefer Vim because I understand Vim script and Lua way more than I do Lisp or elisp or whatever it's called and that's the one final thought that I have is that the syntax for the config of do me max and Emacs is So far a little bit beyond me. I've tried to change the font. I keep getting errors I don't know why because I just copied somebody else's the code block and I Stuck at errors. So I don't know what was going on there I'll figure that out eventually. I'm sure it could be something like in it like in a yaml file You have to have your indentations, right? And you can't use tab So maybe that has something to do with what I was doing. I don't know. I'll figure that out So I'm still at the beginning stages of learning how to configure it I did learn how to change the theme as we know that's the most important thing So those are my first initial impressions of my week with Emacs It hasn't scared me away yet, but it hasn't blown me out of the water yet either We'll see if things like org mode and the note-taking plug-in or whatever it's called Make me more impressed with it than I am because right now like I said I'm just using as a text editor and it's not as good a text editor as them in my opinion Anyways, that's it for this video. 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