Emacs D&D
“Having GNU Emacs is like having a dragon’s cave of treasures.”
I love manuals that are unashamed to be nerdy as all get out. My transition to Emacs as my primary editor is humming along nicely. I’m still not as fast in Emac as I am in Vim, but I’m getting there. Dired and some liberal buffer usage is almost-as-good as the menu bar in TextMate. I played around with ECB for Emacs, but ended up ditching it for straight GNU. I veered slightly off the GNU path on my Mac, and installed Aquamacs. I had a hard time looking at the fonts on straight Emacs on my Mac. They made me cringe. Aquamacs is anti-aliased, which makes it prettier. I also found a rails-mode that gives you a bunch of snippets similar to TextMate.
I’m happy with the transition. I like the idea of using (pretty much) the same editor on my Mac, PC, and Linux box. It’s also nice to know that I can extend Emacs in interesting ways without having to learn Vim scripting. I like the idea of extending Emacs with Lisp. It kills two learning-birds with one nerd-stone. A nerd-stone of +2 attack! In short, “GNU Emacs is like having a dragon’s cave of treasures.”
