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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I switched from Vim to Emacs a few months ago. The actual editing part I picked up pretty quickly. But since day 1 I've been trying to get a config for Emacs that works for me and it's like I'm playing bug/unexpected weirdness whack a mole.</p> <p>- Getting LSP support in particular has been particularly frustrating - remote LSPs don't work, have to fix paths, frames don't work correctly on Mac, icons get rendered as bogus unicode characters in the terminal.</p> <p>- Getting TRAMP to not freeze my emacs all the time has been frustrating. Quite frankly it's a heaping pile compared to VSCode's remote server. It's slow. You're lucky if it works with the feature you want, and when it doesn't work it just destroys the entire emacs instance requiring a force quit.</p> <p>- Getting projectile/treemacs/tramp/etc. to work in sync on my project folders has been frustrating. All of these tools were built by different people and some of them have code for the others and some of them don't.</p> <p>- Terrible and unintuitive window system. I constantly have to override the default behavior to stop compilation/terminal/helper buffers from doing the wrong thing when they open.</p> <p>- MacOS versions crash or create blank frames etc when full screened. Pixel rendering is weird. You have like three projects to get emacs to work on a Mac. On Linux the support is obviously better but I have to have separate configs loaded on each platform just to patch Mac to work.</p> <p>Just today I tried to find a plugin to make tabs look ok since today was the first time I tried tabs and they looked terrible and didn't fit the gnome theme I was using. So I got centaur. Then I tried to open a tab again and it opened a centaur tab and one of the ugly tabs... like wtf.</p> <p>Overall I've spent tons and tons of time trying to make emacs work for me. I like the IDEA of it. It has plugins that I like much better than the ones I was using with Vim. I like the major/minor mode system and elisp. But I'm spending more time at work trying to get my editor to do what I need it to do than actually getting work on my project done.</p> <p>I'm willing to listen to advice. Please do not recommend spacemacs, doom emacs, or someone else's emacs spin. I do not want to use someone else's emacs or vim configs. I just want my configs to work and emacs to act in a sane way by default.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SEgopher"> /u/SEgopher </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/r0tyth/about_to_declare_emacs_bankruptcy_before_i_lose/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/r0tyth/about_to_declare_emacs_bankruptcy_before_i_lose/">[comments]</a></span> |