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I like the eye-candy, but spacemacs does come with a greater speed penalty. What makes spacemacs worth keeping?
Evil-mode is just a single Emacs
package providing a minor mode to emulate vi-like features. There are
thousands of "packages" that can be installed in various ways at
any time.
Spacemacs is a full-blown,
opinionated, kitchen-sink starter kit distribution. It features Evil-mode front-and-center, but also provides and configures many other ambitious packages like Helm, and themes, and its own
necessary documentation (which seemed pretty good). Installation of
starter kits is more involved than packages and is the starting point
if you choose to use one.
You have to decide if you want to adopt the whole Spacemacs
experience/philosophy, or rather just bring over your vi habits via
Evil for some familiar bindings in a traditional Emacs. Doing the
latter gives more flexibility -- you can individually add other
packages that Spacemacs leverages.
After 15 years of Vim, I successfully switched to Emacs and opted to
let Emacs just be Emacs and learn its natural bindings (still
learning, of course!). I found this makes Emacs books, documentation,
and people easier to make sense of, and now I don't miss the modal
editing.
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I have some predisposing factors to developing carpal tunnel and would like to avoid it as much as possible. I do however want to use Vim or Emacs and I would like to learn from the experiences of others.
Has there been any research showing either a correlation or lack of correlation between using a keyboard-heavy editor like Vim or Emacs and developing carpal tunnel syndrome?
Emacs uses a lot of combination key strokes, especially ctrl. Many emacs users bind ctrl to the caps-lock key to make it easy to access with the left pinky. Still if you are worried about carpal tunnel I think less one combo keys would be better, especailly if you tend to do them one handed.
I haven't used vim intensively but from what I remember from mys sysadmin days, it's mostly single keys, although esc is frequent and is a stretch. You could move the esc key and end up with a fairly neutral typing position for most tasks in vim.
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I understand and can write commands in Vim. But i would like to know what happens in the background in Vim. Like whats files are called and how plugins come into play?
Your question isn't very specific and clear. Basically, any configuration is put into a ~/.vimrc file, like with many other (Unix-based) programs (the native Windows way is more complex). Plugins go into a directory structure in ~/.vim/. It's basically just putting the files there, and restarting Vim. Many also use plugin managers like Pathogen, Vundle, etc.
You'll find all the details under :help startup. Learn how to look up commands and navigate the built-in :help; it is comprehensive and offers many tips. You won't learn Vim as fast as other editors, but if you commit to continuous learning, it'll prove a very powerful and efficient editor.
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What's the true difference between an IDE and text editor with a bunch of plugins? Why should I prefer an IDE over a text editor for development?
IDE stands for "Integrated development environment" not just a tool where you write the code, but you can also compile it and debug it..
text editors in their nature, usually don't do that, they tend to go for a broader approach..
be able to edit all types of files, instead of specializing in a particular type or language..
sure you can have plugins, specific for a type of file or language, that compiles/runs/debugs but since is it done by plugins, I guess the "integrated" part is off the table, so doesn't make much sense to call it IDE
And as said before, because the nature of the text editors the potential for integrated development experience will always be limited
In the end, you want something that's going to make you the most productive. Whether that's Notepad or Vim or Sublime or something else is up to the user and the tasks required at the time.
With that said, an IDE does bring some solid benefits for development. Depending on the language and IDE, this may include integrated build tools, source control management, unit testing tools, automatic boilerplate generation, and class/variable refactoring.
"IDE" isn't a very well defined term, but in my experience single unit IDEs (as opposed to editor + added plugins) seem to have more powerful debuggers, more integration between different tools in the IDE (e.g. easy to debug unit tests, use of deep code analysis to feed autocompletion, etc). And of course more things work out of the box w/o having to download and configure plugins yourself, and the GUI is often are easier to figure out for new users or novices. But it's a personal choice and the bottom line is you should try the tools you're considering and choose the one that fits best with your needs.
IDE is stands for "Integrated Developement Environment" where the programmer can develop efficient projects and it provides drag and drop facility which reduces the stress of a programmer. Editor is one which is related to a specific language where you an write the program and run the program..
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Basically, I really like vi[m]'s key-bindings, but not the rest of the editor. I really dislike emacs key-bindings, but like the rest of the editor.
viper-mode seems like the best of both worlds, but it's not perfect..
What vim features did you miss in emacs (and more importantly, how did you get them back)? What config-tweaks did you do to make viper-mode nicer to use?
As a start: I really missed vim's visual-selection mode.. vimpulse adds this to emacs!
As far as I know, VIM/VI has always had the :set nu feature to show line numbers along-side the lines themselves. By default, emacs only had line-number-mode which showed the line-number of the current line in the mode-line (not the same thing).
To fix that, I always found linum.el pretty useful. Starting with the upcoming emacs 23, the linum mode would be included in the standard distribution. But for emacs <= 22, one still needs to install it manually.
I also miss the incremental search with / and ? . Something like
what is posted here first in the TODO section.
http://common-lisp.net/project/vial/darcs/extended-viper/vimlike.el
If anyone can provide it, it would be great. Jurta ?
I would recommend you use my version of the emacs starter kit. It is totally customized for heavy (symbiotic) use of emacs and vi/vim (via viper and vimpulse) together.
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How can I improve the look and feel of my Linux desktop to suit my programming needs?
I found Compiz and it makes switching between my workspaces (which is something I do all the time to make the most of my 13.3" screen laptop) easy and look great - so what else don't I know about that make my programming environment more productive/pleasing?
#Rob Cooper - thanks for the heads-up, hope this reword addresses the issues
I found that the best programming experience comes from having quick access all your tools. This means getting comfortable with basic command line acrobatics and really learning keyboard shortcuts, flags, and little productivity apps.
I find that most of my workflow comes down to just a few apps and commands:
Terminator
SVN commands - ci, co, status, log, etc.
Command Line FTP
Vim
Basic Command lines operations (cd, rm, mv, cp, touch, grep, and std i/o redirection comprise 80% of my work day)
Not to say that GUI apps aren't necessary. A few I use:
Diffmerge
RapidSVN
Filezilla
VirtualBox
GnomeDo (this really should be first)
When it comes down to it, the real improvement in programming experience comes from just that - programming experience. Just pick a set of tools and stick with them until you know them inside and out.
I've used by Ubuntu desktop for some coding sessions. I haven't settled on an IDE, but if I'm not using gedit, I'll use emacs as my editor. Sometimes I need to ssh to a remote server and edit from there, in which case emacs is preferred. I'm just not the vi(m) type.
Maybe I'll try out Eclipse one day...
I love Compiz, but it does nothing for my coding experience. It's just eye candy. You can do desktop switching and Alt-Tab just fine without it. Aside from that, Jeff Atwood's recommendations for good chair, multi-monitors, and simplistic background still apply for me.
If you have half decent 3D acceleration on board, CompizFusion adds attractive desktop effects like mapping your workspaces onto a cube using that to switch between them/move windows between them. Looks pretty and improves general usability - great!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiz