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by _m8fo 3136 days ago
When I tried emacs a few years ago I found the learning curve to be far more steep than vim at the time. After trying out https://vim-adventures.com/ (no affiliation, just thought it was useful) I learned it in about 15 minutes.

Is there any equivalent for emacs? I'd love to get it another shot.
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xfer 3136 days ago
If you know vim keybindings you can already use emacs with evil. Just install spacemacs and off you go.
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pmoriarty 3136 days ago
To be fair, evil and spacemacs will only get you vim-like keybindings (which is all that vim-adventures gives you too), but there's a lot more to both editors than just keybindings.

There's even more to emacs than to vim, if you start using emacs for more than just editing, doing things that have no equivalent in vim (like reading email, browsing the web, using IRC, or reading RSS news feeds, etc). For every one of these extra things, there's new stuff to learn, and more time to spend configuring emacs first to just work with those things and then to customize it the way you like.

For me the time investment is well worth it, but there's no denying that it takes a lot of time. A lot of time.

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xfer 3136 days ago
The parent question was 15min quick start to emacs, not learn niche usage like reading email, irc etc. You can use spacemacs for a lot of languages with good support, if you are only familiar with vim keybindings.
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cat199 3136 days ago
the online tutorial (not nearly so animated)

but that said, emacs practically is a video game.

I suggest developing a lisp habit, this will just about force you to learn some emacs and from there you will get over the learning curve.

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