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A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)

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Resurfaced independently across 2 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
3
submitters
3
observed span
2015–2017
peak thread · 172 comments
364 pts
latest 20+ return · 2017-11-22
364 pts

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2007–2026

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It is difficult to even describe a productive hand tuned to fit the individual Emails setup compared to standard. Here are some of my favorite Emacs things: Helm + Projectile. Helm will fuzzy complete almost anything in Emacs. Projectile is project management. Together get to any Git repo and file there in very quick. Helm is an option to compare to IDO. I rarely use IDO due to Helm. Magit, widely regarded as a good Git UI. Using is believing…

I think helm is the new thing that replaces ido: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm Ace Jump is pretty incredible. All editors and IDE's should be required to implement it. Here's a video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZkpmegySnc Easy Motion does the same thing in vim: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3526

melling·129-point thread·

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
495

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Total comments
234

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Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2015-11-16A CEO's Guide to Emacs. It's Not Just for ProgrammersAndrewWright20
2015-11-28A CEO's Guide to EmacsFirst breakoutingve12962
2017-11-22A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)Best thread · Latest 20+ point returnprakashk364172