fornacis wrote:
RX14 wrote:
fornacis wrote:
I use vim. Tried emacs but went back to vim because I couldn't get used to it.
I imagine emacs by itself is quite shit compared to vim. I've never used emacs without spacemacs, and spacemacs keeps the vim keybinds for actual text editing anwyay so I didn't have to learn that much.
I like vim because I find it easy to configure. Same reason why I prefer i3 to any other wm. WIth emacs you need to use Lisp and for some reason it doesn't feel as simple as vim. It all comes down to preferences.
I use i3-wm too, and I also use it because it's easy to configure. I tried xmonad but fuck that. I also don't want to sound like i'm begging you to use spacemacs. That said, you do not need to learn lisp to configure spacemacs. Spacemacs has a nice config file with all the common options enumerated and commented in the file. Then it's just a matter of editing the file a bit to suit your needs, not creating a new one from scratch out of lisp functions. Spacemacs is very different from vanilla emacs in that regard.
Of course you can't do super fancy custom things that nobody has thought of without learning lisp, but I never needed to write a vimscript function in the year I used vim, and I haven't either when using spacemacs. I've just tweaked the occational configuration option, and the plugins seem to be very configurable.
