Emacs - Day 10 

After an enthusiastic start, I'm now having serious doubts as to the
wisdom of trying to convert from Vim to Emacs.  My editing speed has
slowed considerably as I have to think about how to move around the
screen and I'm constantly hitting the esc button change mode - but of
course Emacs does not have modes as such and I have to C-g to get back
to where I was.

Every time I want to copy and paste, I have to stop, look up the
cheat-sheet to find out how to do it.  In Vim, I can do that without
even thinking.  

Emacs has some really strange key chords and I'm constantly mixing up
Control commands with Alt commands and having to C-g to back out of
the mess I've made.  The most regular command I've used and
have no problem remembering is C-/ (undo).  I'm constantly stopping to
look at the keyboard to find the alt key or the control key.   In Vim,
I never even have to look at the keyboard.  The home keys have become
instinctive over the years to navigate my document, and the use of
Control or Alt is much less.

I have used evil-mode and in Emacs and I like that I can use Vim key
bindings in it, but what's the point?  Why not just use Vim instead?

It seems that a lot of people make Vim tutorials on YouTube.  The
range available for Emacs is much less.

One aspect of Emacs that has made it particularly frustrating is not
being able to get it to find system fonts on Gentoo.  I was surprised
to find that Emacs is actually a graphical program by default and not
console based like Vim.  I prefer console mode which is also why I
don't use Gvim much.  

So, the shine of my initial enthusiasm has worn off.  

I'm pretty sure I'm going to stick with Vim.

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bradmac@sdf.org
2020-08-10