This Time Is Going to Be Different. I Hope. - Emacs Long Term Review

so I made a video approximately two years ago where I tried emac for what I claimed to be the last time and I was legitimately done with emac at that point and my argument against emac has always been not that emac is bad because it's not but more that emac is just not for me it does too many things it takes a lot of configuring in order to get it to actually work the way you want it to work and by the time you've done that you spent so much time it's very much like Vim in that way right in order to get Vim to work really really well you have to kind of spend your life configuring it and eventually yeah you do kind of get yourself into a comfort zone but by that point you've spent so much time it's really kind of hard to leave and I've already done that with them I've I've done the work with them I have my configuration file that I use I did finally transition over to Lua but it took a long time and a lot of effort in order to actually do I don't know if I want to put that much effort into an entirely new ecosystem which is what emac is but I'm a people pleaser at heart I can't even say that with a straight face but I like to make you guys happy and I have been asked repeatedly like constantly by dozens of people to give emac an honest a god long-term review and by long term they weren't talking about a month or two they were talking a long long-term review so damn it I'm going to do a long-term emac review now I'm going to do this in two parts I'm going to torture myself first and then I'm going to go the way that I want to go so first I'm going to do vanilla emex now just saying that makes me cringe I don't want to do vanilla emex I have no interest in vanilla emex whatsoever cuz I know in order to get past and actually use that thing I'm basically just going to be recreating Doom Max I know it for a fact I'm going to enable evil mode I'm going to do all the things that doomx has already done but I'm going to have to do it all by myself but it's probably a good thing I don't like saying that but it's true if I want to learn emac and all the stuff that goes with it I'm going to have to put the effort in and the best way to do that is to start from a blank slate and figure out how to do it on my own then if I decide I want to go with doomy Max I'll least know what they've done and how to Tinker around with it I suppose so the first half of the review I don't know how long it will last it'll be many many months will be spent in vanilla emac now it won't stay vanilla I guarantee that there are things I'm going to be changing right off the bat I'm not going to I'm not going to be doing like a suckless vanilla you know review where I stay suckless the whole time this just not just dwm and suckless tools are useless without patches I'm assuming vanilla emex is basically the same way I don't want to use it vanilla for very long so I'm going to tweak it and make it my own and we'll see how that goes the second half of the review if it happens will be doomy Max I have a feeling this where all end up anyway because I have a feeling after using vanilla emex for a couple days and not getting very far I have a feeling that vanilla emex is just not going to be at all what I want like I'm going to want Doom emx I'm probably not going to be able to learn vanilla emac fast enough to make myself use it for any amount of time and be happy about it so we'll see but I'm going to try So eventually if I can't get vanilla emac to work well enough for me which I'm going to give it a good old College try I'm going to try over the course of several months and then I'll move on to Doom me if I need to so I'm I do have a like a a safety net uh uh baby blanket whatever that is there in the background if vanilla emac just proves too difficult for my my little bitty brain to figure out how to use we'll see how it goes but anyways I have I have emac installed which you guys will be seeing here in a b-roll I'm I'm not going to switch to it in live screen because there's other stuff up on the screen that I don't want to have to hide but the the point is that I have emac installed it is been on my system for a couple days I have or I'm in the process of finding tutorials on how to use it that's where I'm at right now it's very early days I will say that there isn't a program out there outside of xfce that does a worst job of being pretty out of the box like just beginners vanilla emac is the fugliest program I've ever seen like I understand a program is not supposed to be like pretty to be functional doesn't have to be pretty to be functional but from from like a it's like when you're trying to buy a house and the first thing you see is the outside of it if it looks like a pig's Dy and it looks like it's could be condemned it doesn't matter what the inside looks like if the outside looks that way you you know what I mean so it doesn't matter that emac is all powerful if the outside looks like crap I'm going to think that it's all crap that's the way that I think so anyways I'm doing an emac long-term review you guys will know when this video go up goes up when that I'm actually starting I don't know when I'll actually post this video but probably by the time you see this I'll have been in emac for quite some time so I may end up actually recording several other videos on emac as as the course goes along I want to give org mode a serious honesty guide try this time one of the reasons why I'm doing this is because I've been searching for a good markdown editor and and the only one that I found that works well with the way I do things is Obsidian and I have my own problems with obsidian I did a whole video about those so I want to see if emac can be my markdown editor it has to be better than what I found so far but we'll see depends on how much effort I got to put into to make it that way and if the effort at the end is worth it we'll like I said we'll see we're we're early days so if you have things you want to know 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