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#+TITLE: Emacs, the Journey to an Operating System
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#+DATE: <2020-09-27 Sun>
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* The Age without Emacs
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It's the 12th of February, I'm playing Factorio on my laptop, when the bell rings and not long
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after my Biology teacher enters the classroom, I quickly save and exit out of Factorio. After the
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usual formalities I sit down and open my editor, so that I can take notes during the lesson. As
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you might have guessed, I didn't open Emacs, instead I opened VSCode, yes I know, not even
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VSCodium, but the prorietary spyware-filled version. I then open a new Markdown file and started
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typing away. This procedure repeated multiple times during the day, until school ended and I got
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home, I sat down in front of my desktop and opened CLion, because I wanted to do some coding in
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Rust. I had VSCode opened on my desktop too, as I needed access to my notes, when one of my
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classmates wanted them. I had two completely different editors opened almost all the time and
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even vim, when I logged into remote servers and got to editing some =Dockerfile=. \\
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\\
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That is roughly how my day went, before I switched full time to Emacs and learned of all the
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features the Emacs operating system has. I didn't even realize, how much I was missing out on
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and how painful my existence was. Let's go over the different pain points I now, in retrospect,
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realize existed.
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** The Pain
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If you're an Emacs veteran, you surely have already noticed everything I'll point out in the
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next few paragraphs, but please do read on as I present my unique view on the issues.
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*** Multiple Editors
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Let's start with the most obvious one, during "A day in the Life of Me", I would switch between
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3 different editors, being, in increasing order of time spent in each, VSCode, CLion and Vim.
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This brings with it many issues, including but not limited to: keybindings, plugins/addons,
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look&feel, features and even supported files/projects. The editors could be split into two
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categories, classic: "CLion, VSCode" and "Vim". If you've spend even a minute on a *nix system,
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you must know what Vim is and that, let's be honest, it has a weird, alien control scheme. This
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"Weirdness" is even supported by a multitude of memes, such as:
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