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Reconnecting with Emacs
2026-05-17
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It's not that I stopped using it, but for a while I've been using it
just for editing code.  I miss doing more with it,  so while I'm not
ready to  go hog-wild and  move all of my  computing into it  (I was
nearly there while in grad school) I am going to start using it as a
planner again. org-mode  really is a killer feature for  it. Need to
re-familiarize myself with all of its shortcuts again!

This  year  will mark  twenty  years  since  I first  started  using
emacs. I don't  think much remains of my original  config, though. I
did mess around with vi for a bit when I first started with Solaris,
and then again recently when I went through what I think was a small
mid-life computing crisis, but otherwise it's been all emacs all the
time since  2006. At the  peak of my  usage, I was  doing everything
from  editing  files, to  browsing  my  filesystem, to  reading  and
composing  emails, to  reading rss  and browsing  the web,  all from
emacs. It  was pretty cool  to be able  to take my  entire computing
world with me from machine-to-machine  by merely copying some config
files,  but  I  don't  think  I  want  to  go  back  to  that  world
again. Sometimes dedicated programs are just better.

Here's to another twenty years, old friend.