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jd
@jd.codes

I've had several folks throughout my career express a level of intimidation about using Emacs to me. I'm not huge into the Emacs vs Vim vs VSCode thing, but one thing Emacs does better than every other app I've ever used, is having incredible documentation and help navigation natively in the editor.

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jd
@jd.codes

Part of why I still use it, despite it's oddities and inconveniences at times is because I'm not smart or patient enough to figure out how to make other editors do what I want them to do, even though they're just as customizable. With Emacs the docs and examples are just a keystroke away.

jd
@jd.codes

Today I wrote an extension to `web-mode` because of some special files at work. Everyone else is struggling with working on those files because of the lack of an lsp, no syntax highlighting, etc. I wrote 15 lines of elisp after roaming the docs and I have it all as if it's natively supported!