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by binderbizingdos 4882 days ago
it's funny how people praise Sublime Text when plain old Emacs can do most of the things that Sublime Text can:

> 5. vim compatability!

evil-mode - a very advanced vi layer for emacs, probably much better than vintage, I hear only good things about it although I use the standard emacs mode

> 4. Powerful Keybindings in JSON and Plugins in Python

powerful keybindings

  (global-set-key (kbd "<f2>") 'split-window-vertically)
  (global-set-key (kbd "<f3>") 'split-window-horizontally)
  (global-set-key (kbd "<f4>") 'delete-window)
  (global-set-key (kbd "<f5>") 'delete-other-windows)
and modes (plugins) in Elisp

> 3. Package Manager and the More Centralized Community

since Emacs 24 a package manager is included and there are awesome repos for all of your needs:

    (setq package-archives '((     "elpa" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
                             ("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/")
                             (    "melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/")))
after that run

    M-x list-packages
and choose from around 1000 packages

> 2. Project Sessions

there are many modes that support that if you want it. I personally don't like it though. "projectile" is pretty nice though: https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile

> 1. Ctrl+P - GotoAnything:

helm is what you would use on Emacs: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm

it's awesome
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zenogais 4882 days ago
Also perspective-el: https://github.com/nex3/perspective-el is fantastic for switching between multiple projects / window configurations giving you something like project sessions.
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martinced 4882 days ago
That's my biggest issue with Emacs: there are more than one million lines of elisp in circulation.

There isn't going to be any text editor come anywhere close to that.

I need something "programmable" so I'm "stuck" with Emacs.

I'm a bit bitter because sometimes (often actually) I wish Emacs was multi-threaded, easier to interface with externals tools (to make it a bit more like an IDE) -- that is, able to quickly invoke external tools without blocking everything etc.

But I realize that Emacs is soooo big that it's probably going to take a long time before we see a "modern" Emacs.

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binderbizingdos 4882 days ago
> I'm a bit bitter because sometimes (often actually) I wish Emacs was multi-threaded

Tony> - Is multi-threading coming to emacs 25?

I don't know about Emacs 25, but I did manage to merge trunk to the concurrency branch today. If you're interested you could try it out.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-12/msg004...

it looks like Emacs should soon (?) support concurrency

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