Emacs, the Journey to an Operating System
+ +Emacs, the Journey to an Operating System
+The Age without Emacs
+
+It's the 12th of February, I'm playing Factorio on my laptop, when the bell rings and not long
+after my Biology teacher enters the classroom, I quickly save and exit out of Factorio. After the
+usual formalities I sit down and open my editor, so that I can take notes during the lesson. As
+you might have guessed, I didn't open Emacs, instead I opened VSCode, yes I know, not even
+VSCodium, but the prorietary spyware-filled version. I then open a new Markdown file and started
+typing away. This procedure repeated multiple times during the day, until school ended and I got
+home, I sat down in front of my desktop and opened CLion, because I wanted to do some coding in
+Rust. I had VSCode opened on my desktop too, as I needed access to my notes, when one of my
+classmates wanted them. I had two completely different editors opened almost all the time and
+even vim, when I logged into remote servers and got to editing some Dockerfile
.
+
+That is roughly how my day went, before I switched full time to Emacs and learned of all the
+features the Emacs operating system has. I didn't even realize, how much I was missing out on
+and how painful my existence was. Let's go over the different pain points I now, in retrospect,
+realize existed.
+
The Pain
++If you're an Emacs veteran, you surely have already noticed everything I'll point out in the +next few paragraphs, but please do read on as I present my unique view on the issues. +
+Multiple Editors
++Let's start with the most obvious one, during "A day in the Life of Me", I would switch between +3 different editors, being, in increasing order of time spent in each, VSCode, CLion and Vim. +This brings with it many issues, including but not limited to: keybindings, plugins/addons, +look&feel, features and even supported files/projects. The editors could be split into two +categories, classic: "CLion, VSCode" and "Vim". If you've spend even a minute on a *nix system, +you must know what Vim is and that, let's be honest, it has a weird, alien control scheme. This +"Weirdness" is even supported by a multitude of memes, such as: +
+