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What primary task(s) do you use emacs for? How were you introduced to using emacs? And since then already how long? : r/emacs (teddit.net)

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On reddit side of internet there is this post. Just wanted to see Lemmy's answer to that question, so I will start:

I was introduced to Emacs about 15 years ago, but it didn't click with me at that time. I was young and foolish, laughing all the time "hehe muh parentheses". At that time I got into world of Vi. Fast forward to today and I use Emacs for almost everything. I started my true journey about three years ago, slowing using it for more and more stuff.

Here is list of stuff I do inside of Emacs:

it's my WM (EXWM)
IRC client (weechat.el)
RSS reader (elfeed)
NNTP and email reader (Gnus)
time tracking, to do tracking, calendar (org-mode)
note taking (org-roam)
music and video player (emms with mpv backend)
mastodon client (mastodon.el)
wallabag client (wallabage.el)
file browser (dired) and remote tool with tramp
shell (eshell)
code editor (Emacs with LSP)
git interface (magit)
documentation browser (devdocs)
gemini browser (elpher)
pdf reader (pdf-tools)
epub reader (nov.el)
calibre library client (calibredb)
openstreetmap browser (osm)
search engines client (engine-mode)

At this point I started to think about Emacs more as an GUI framework with integrated elisp interpreter then code editor.

Going back to original question: what is your story with Emacs?

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[–] INeedMana@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't remember how and when exactly were I introduced to Emacs. Must have been sometime when I started using Linux 20 years ago.
Vim's usage of modes and switching between these with esc didn't work well with me, it still feels clunky.
About Nano I heard later but it has always felt like a rudimentary option.

I use Emacs for:

programming at work and as a hobby (although git I use via command line. with drop-down terminals it works better for me)
- C++
- Python
- STM32
writing latex documents

At this point I started to think about Emacs more as an GUI framework with integrated elisp interpreter then code editor.

During the editor war there was a joke that Emacs is a very nice operating system but it lacks a proper file editor ;P

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