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