I’ve always been curious about Emacs, but haven’t been able to learn it.
This playlist looks promising, but ufff each video is like 1 hour and most of the video is just random chatting because it’s a live stream…
Does anyone know any better video series? Something structured and to the point?
I haven’t been TUI only for roughly two decades now - that’s around the time the server got properly usable.
I typically have a daemon running - on Linux via systemd user session, on MacOS via launchd, on Windows via startup. I then attach GUI frames to that, and - at least on the unix style platforms - typically have a tmux with a TUI frame running.
I have scripts to open files in emacs - that’s easy configurable to either open in the last used frame, or attach a TUI frame in the terminal, and open it there. I also have the EDITOR variable set to those scripts.
When fully using emacs you’d probably end up doing more work in emacs, and only occasionally wanting to do shell call outs.
For example, I edit some project, commit it via magit, trigger a build via compile to pack things up, open dired to move the files to a publish location, then open dired at the publish location and modify the publish package from there, and then finally start a shell in that directory to trigger the publish workflow. Only slight annoyance with that is that out of the box emacs shells are not setup for that kind of multiple shell buffers in specific directiories with easy throwaway - but it’s easy enough to make that work.