Comment by IceDane
3 days ago
> it doesn't bother me
Right, so what you're really saying is that you are totally fine with your editor being unresponsive and janky during regular editing workflow, working with modern tooling, and that everyone else is just wrong for not feeling the same way.
You do you. I lived with the same copium excuse for years, obviously, but I've moved past that now and into the year 20xx.
I love emacs and truly wish that I felt like I could seriously use it, and in many ways, I feel like it's the ultimate expression of what an editor could be. But it's just suffering from being 40 year old software that hasn't seen significant modernization to meet the demands of today's development workflows.
Modern tooling part one: tried using an LSP with emacs (35+ year user) ... gave up after 3 days, it provided absolutely nothing to my workflow.
Modern tooling part two: via M-x grep (bound to F1) use ag(1) or rg(1) instead of grep to explore my codebase, runs async and finishes more or less before my "emacs pinkie" is ready to touch another key.
I've been getting into AI in emacs. ellama and especially minuet can be a big help.
Your assumption is that Emacs is unresponsive and janky during my editing experience and it’s not that.
Everyone’s setup is different. Your configuration may be janky and unresponsive, but it’s not a generality.