On: Tmux and Vim – better together

[city41]

I think emacs falls in the same camp as vim in this regard. Setting up emacs is just as painful as setting up vim.

[vonkow → city41]

Check out spacemacs, it works beautifully out of the box.

[_e → vonkow]

Spacemacs is only good if you actually use it consistently throughout the day.

From the prompt, it is faster to open a large file in vim than emacs since you have to wait for all of the spacemacs plugins to load.

[microcolonel → city41]

If you like searchable multiple-choice configuration, there's always customize.

M-x customize

[PopsiclePete → microcolonel]

That doesn't help emacs noobs at all. Half the Emacs term still used today 40 years after being coined don't make any sense. Wait - this is not the Window, but the... Frame? What?

[michaelmrose → PopsiclePete]

Emacs terminology for the uninitiated. http://wikemacs.org/wiki/Emacs_Terminology

[untoreh → PopsiclePete]

frame -> X window

buffer -> tab

window -> tile