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Moving away from Emacs, 130 days after

Written by Solène, on 13 November 2018.
Tags: #emacs

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It has been more than four months since I wrote my article about leaving Emacs. This article will quickly speak about my journey.

First, I successfully left Emacs. Long story short, I like Emacs and think it’s a great piece of software, but I’m not comfortable being dependent of it for everything I do. I chose to replace all my Emacs usage by other software (agenda, notes taking , todo-list, IRC client, jabber client, editor etc..).

  • agenda is not replaced by when (port productivity/when), but I plan to replace it by calendar(1) as it’s in base and that when doesn’t do much.
  • todo-list: I now use taskwarrior + a kanban board (using kanboard) for team work
  • notes: I wrote a small software named “notes” which is a wrapper for editing files and following edition using git. It’s available at git://bitreich.org/notes
  • IRC: weechat (not better or worse than emacs circe)
  • jabber: profanity
  • editor: vim, ed or emacs, that depend what I do. Emacs is excellent for writing Lisp or Scheme code, while I prefer to use vim for most of edition task. I now use ed for small editions.
  • mail: I wrote some kind of a wrapper on top of mblaze. I plan to share it someday.

I’m happy to have moved out from Emacs.