24 hours with Emacs

The process I outlined at the top of my recent post on modal editing missed some steps, which are italicized below. Pick Neovim back up after some number of months or years. … Wonder: Should I use Emacs again?? [30% chance] Try Emacs again. ← just finished … So yeah, I did that. Per the cycle, I was once again confidently moving away from modal editing, but I still wanted an editor I could run in the terminal. Yadda yadda; so I spent the last day feverishly re-learning Emacs. But minutes ago I decided to bail on it, and here are some hasty thoughts in support of that decision. Note: I’m about to complain a bunch about Emacs. So I’ll say at the outset that I think Emacs is dang cool. Amazing, really. That’s why I come back to it every so often. If you’re an Emacs person, I respect and admire and am sorta jealous of you. That said… My purpose for trying Emacs was to have a terminal-based editor that’s vaguely similar to a native macOS text editor. As you might know, macOS has many…