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How I use my terminal

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538 points todsacerdoti | 4 comments | 23 Jun 25 15:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.81s | source
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klntsky ◴[23 Jun 25 17:51 UTC] No.44358290[source]▶
It is sad that we have to know how to configure tens of small utilities just to be productive. I ended up using emacs with some packages that I configure minimally, after spending a few hundreds of hours on ricing the shell, file managers, tmux, etc
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agentultra ◴[23 Jun 25 17:58 UTC] No.44358353[source]▶
Emacs is why I can't go back to terminals.
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vyaa ◴[23 Jun 25 18:20 UTC] No.44358546[source]▶
I haven’t delved into emacs yet. Don’t you still have it configure it and all its tools?
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1. umanwizard ◴[23 Jun 25 18:58 UTC] No.44358906[source]▶
emacs is a lot easier to configure than anything else IMO because it’s self-documenting. If you want to know how to use or configure some command it’s trivially easy to jump to the source code of that command and just see how it works (or modify it, step through it with a debugger, etc). You can’t do that in any other environment as far as I’m aware.

That said, yeah, it certainly doesn’t Just Work out of the box the way something like vscode does.

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2. jynelson ◴[23 Jun 25 19:03 UTC] No.44358953[source]▶
yes!! i would love an environment where every binary carries a mapping from the exe back to the source code, DWARF is kinda this but there's very little tooling around it and distros often don't ship it by default. i want something like gdbserver but built into the editor and terminal.
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3. umanwizard ◴[23 Jun 25 19:13 UTC] No.44359042[source]▶
That is also my dream; doing as much as possible inside emacs, using plugins written in emacs lisp, is basically the closest you can get to it today.
4. klntsky ◴[24 Jun 25 07:17 UTC] No.44363621[source]▶
There are modifications of emacs that appeal to normies like spacemacs