 So I have tried out Emacs at least three times and all of them have been at the behest of people in my community They have all asked me to take a look at Emacs and I've even gone so far as spending a week in Emacs a couple different times and Both of those times I had intentions of spending much more time in doing and actually doing like a long-term review of my time in Emacs But I've never actually made it past a week and Unfortunately, here we are again. This is the second. This is the third time and it's the last time So let's talk about my week or almost a week with Emacs in the previous attempts I was trying to replace them and I wanted to actually use a lot of the functions of Emacs. I wanted to try out org mode I wanted to try out a lot of the Like coding features and stuff like that do some scripting it and stuff and that and I did that and Emacs is a fine tool for those functions you can do those things just fine just as like you can with them and There's nothing wrong inherently wrong with Emacs now I have some problems with the amount of stuff that comes pre-packaged with Emacs specifically doom Emacs I think a lot of the stuff there just it feels unnecessary But I've come around to the idea that it's no different really than having a Vim Configuration that has a lot of plugins, you know Most people who are using them use some kind of plugins to make their experience a little better either they have They use pre-packaged plugins from other developers or they use things that they've written themselves Whatever they've enhanced them to do different things that's part of the idea of building up a configuration of them or Neo Vim or whatever and Almost everybody adds features to them. It's one of the things that makes them great is that you can extend it and my previous argument of Emacs being bloated kind of flies in the face of being able to do basically the same thing with them because I do Enable a lot of plugins with them and it could be argued that I'm basically just Kind of doing the same thing that Emacs does out of the box now. There are obviously some exceptions for this I'm talking about like the email client and the Tetris and stuff like that But we won't really get into that those things are just kind of there for fan service I guess this time when I decided I was going to try Emacs I decided that I was going to do it for myself like I was going because I'm like I'm not a big Like I'm not a developer at all and I don't do a lot of scripting So using Emacs as something to do those things doesn't make a lot of sense because I just Won't use it all that much because I don't do those things that often but what I do do is Write a lot and over the last six months or so I've transitioned to doing all of my writing in Vim and I thought that it would be a Interesting experience to try Emacs as a writing tool So that's what I did this time and I streamed setting it up this last Sunday and had a lot of help from the guys in the chat Including DT and it wasn't a bad experience. So this Whole week. I've been using Emacs as my writing tool and I have some thoughts So the first thing is that I did this time exactly what I did last time and then I recreated every single piece of Functionality I have in them in Emacs so basically what I was doing was recreating them and I don't think that I gained anything from actually using Emacs I was basically just using them with some added complexity because there are some key bindings that just were a little weird and they were hard to change but also that Everything in Emacs basically is a key cord and while I love key cords I do feel like they abandoned the ability to do just regular key bindings like before you get to key cords There should be some key bindings and I'm sure there are but for the most part the tools that I was using were all attached to key cords and That and kind of added an extra layer of complexity to getting to do certain things within Emacs Not a big deal something that I definitely got used to even after just a couple days But it's something that I noticed the biggest problem as I said was that I was just basically recreating them in Emacs and I don't find that a useful thing if I was just going to use them I would just stick on using them From what I could see in the things that I've done over the last week Emacs doesn't really add anything that them can't do except for one thing and That is the ability to have text that is different sizes. That's something that you can't do in a terminal It's something that you've never been able to do in a terminal at least not you know without fudging it with like Ascii art or something and the ability to have Like markdown headers that are actually the size of the header. That's really cool but even that isn't done by default DT had to do that for me and Well, it's a good experience. I found that it wasn't as necessary To my workflow as I thought it was going to be I'm so used to just having color-coded headings It didn't really matter to me that they were bigger So the one thing that Emacs really had going for that ability to do multi-sized, you know size text Isn't something that I find myself thinking all that useful Despite what I thought going in like I thought it was going to be what you know much more helpful to my writing process But it really wasn't Outside of that everything that I could do in Emacs I was already doing in them now I could see if I was never used them before or if I wasn't such a Vim fan boy and Hadn't already built up my configuration file To the point where it has all of the plugins that I need all the features and keybondings already where I need them to be I could see if I wasn't at that point and I just started, you know looking for a Text editor of some kind I could see Emacs being Okay, because it has a lot of the stuff that you need in order to make it a good writing tool built-in right out of the box it does mark down and stuff right out of the box and Adding packages and stuff like that is a little bit easier in that it's just like one line There's no multiple places to put configuration or settings and stuff like that. It's just there and that's really nice But I've already done the work in them like my configuration files where I want it there's no benefit for me at least at the moment to Use Emacs because it does nothing more for me Then what then already does if that makes sense So my experiment with Emacs is over and this is the last time like I'm not trying it again I don't I say that like I've been talked into it now three times I can't see myself being talked into it a third time or a fourth time it's just There's nothing there for me and it doesn't mean that I'm Saying Emacs is bad like I don't think Emacs is bad at all I think org mode is fantastic and if you have a reason to use org mode It's probably the best tool on Linux for you, right? It's so multifaceted and so Capable of doing so many different things It probably feels like a Swiss army knife to a caveman or something like it just allows you to do so much stuff and You can write code snippets. You can create websites. You can do all the stuff in org mode But for me personally org mode doesn't make any sense like for my workflow It wouldn't make any sense to write all my stuff in org mode translated to mark down or even into html and Then move it into whatever format. I need to use it would just add a middleman that doesn't necessarily need to be there because I can just write in markdown and Upload it to WordPress, which is where all of my stuff usually goes and Wordpress will automatically do the things that it needs to do in order to get it to The proper formatting and stuff I don't need to add that extra middleman of org mode in order to do that So the one huge benefit that emacs offers to everyone not just writers is org mode And I won't use it like it doesn't provide any function for me It doesn't mean that I don't think it's cool. I do think it's cool But it's just not something that I would have the need for so I'm officially done with emacs And I don't think that it comes as a surprise to anyone that I didn't stick with it this time I have learned more this time about configuring emacs than I did the last time I will say that I learned how to Add packages this time that I didn't know how to do that before I learned how to Create new key bindings and key cords. That's something that I didn't know how to do before I've learned many different things this time than I didn't learn last time because I just used basically the IDE portion of emacs and this time I didn't use that at all so I had to branch out and to order to Make emacs a little bit more of my own and that was fun like I had a good time learning those things and I feel more now like I know why people use emacs than I did before so I could empathize with them a little bit more and I feel more confident in my decision not to use emacs than I did before because the last time I used emacs I didn't really dive into org mode like hardly at all and I didn't do any writing in it Which is still my primary function as a person because that's what I do every day and this time now that I've done that I can feel like I've used it more to the point where at least I now know It's not for me like it's just not it's like Microsoft Windows may be for a lot of people and a lot of people like it like they have Podcasts and fanboys and stuff like that just like Linux does but it's not for me like it's just not and We can talk about the reasons why it's not But we don't really need to just know that it's not for me, but it can be for other people It's the same thing with emacs a lot of people love emacs and that's fantastic for them But for me, it's just really not for me Them is the thing that I like to use and I think that I'm too attached to it to ever see Any benefit in anything else so that is it for this video just a quick one before I run out of time for the day If you have any comments on this you can leave those in the comment section below I would really love to hear from you if you haven't hit the subscribe button I would really appreciate that we've had tremendous growth over the last couple days, which is just Absolutely blowing my mind also kind of terrorizing me just a little bit But anyways if you want to follow me on Twitter You can do so at Linux cast if you want to follow me on mastedon or any of my other social media outlets You can find those links in the video description. 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