Does anyone know if there’s a way to get emacs to open with very basic functionality in order to get a quick startup time for quick terminal text editing?

Just finding that replacing vim with emacs for this workflow is a bit jarring but ultimately would like to stick with emacs if I can

ive seen a lot of people use https://github.com/troglobit/mg for this purpose, maybe that helps?

Yeah think it’s partially slight differences I have between vim and emacs at the moment and would be less muscle memory to just use one or the other

You can start Emacs as a server process for this: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Emacs-Server.html Then running emacsclient will just start a new client on the already-running server instead of launching and initialising a new server

ooo, that sounds like a good option

Personally I also just use vim though 😉

How do you find going between them then?

Do you not have any issues? I know it’s mainly minor things but I just value consistency

I very rarely use vim for anything more than quickly editing shell scripts when I’m already in a shell, or for viewing and searching through large log files (which Emacs seems to struggle with). It hasn’t annoyed me enough to want to setup an Emacs server process

Ah fair enough, with regard to the project searching have you tried ripgrep? I’ve heard it’s much faster but haven’t tried it myself

You could also use nano which is a bit more Emacs-y

Yeah I use ripgrep for project search in Emacs. But when I have a single large log file I don’t want to open it in an Emacs buffer, so I just switch to a shell and open it in vim to search through

Think if I can’t use emacs vim would be the way to go for me. I’m only just coming to emacs after a long time with vim so pretty comfortable with it

I use zile for very quick edits: it has emacs-like keybindings and... nothing else

but +1 on emacs-server if it's for local workflow

+1 on using vim for those use cases

There’s also the option of never leaving Emacs: EXWM.

why stop there? https://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux.html

For a beginner in emacs.. might take me a while to get there 😅

Yeah I’m on doom, figured it was easier to start with doom and strip back when I start to get comfortable and definitely seems to be working out

Makes sense, did you use emacs for something other than clojure? I imagine I’ll use it much more for other development more than clojure initially

Yeah I’m currently using it for ruby

Yeah I wonder how far down the rabbit hole I’ll go

Whether I’ll try to live inside the bubble or not

It definitely looks tempting

Aww don’t say that 😅

The dream is to only have to use one!

But in reality yeah I can see that’s always going to be the case

Yeah that’s an interesting perspective. I figure if anything is going to come close to replace all other editor for me it’s emacs. Just to do it will require a lot of investment..

Especially since my day job is an iOS developer

Xcode is so behind the curve compared to other editors

Yeah last few major releases haven’t been great

Yeah it does, I tried it long ago but there’s always something that brings you back to Xcode

Especially when you work in a team

No such thing right? aha Once you think you find it, what you do day to day changes

But yeah I’ll have fun with it either way

Yeah wouldn’t want to fall off the tightrope of development to my death 😱