What's new in Emacs 29.1
Finally decided to try out Emacs for a couple of days. (after years of vim and Jetbrains). Vanilla Emacs without batteries included.<p>I&#x27;ve found the configuration is surprisingly easy to read even tho I haven&#x27;t seen lisp for 10 years. I think it&#x27;s atrocious that many keybindings start with &lt;C-x&gt;, but it&#x27;s easy to set it to another key (mine is &lt;C-j&gt; with capslock as &lt;C&gt;) so not a big deal.<p>My biggest complain so far is that the whole ecosystem is Unix-first. People say once they get used to Emacs they almost stay in it all day long. And even as an Emacs newbie I can confidently say these people all use Unix-like systems.<p>On Windows magit is <i>really</i> slow. Like much slower than any git GUI I&#x27;ve seen. And while eshell is usable, it feels rather primitive and not like a proper terminal. The default spellchecker option doesn&#x27;t work on Windows either, but hunspell seems ok-ish (still a bit slow).<p>I understand that no one is oblige to write any software for my OS, but stil...<p>Edit:<p>The reason I don&#x27;t use WSL: the last time I tried it, it was really slow when a windows process read from&#x2F;wrote to a file living in linux file system, and vice versa. One obvious solution is to move as many file as possible to WSL, but I&#x27;m just not mentally ready to change my workflow that much.<p>Edit 2:<p>For people who like to try Emacs, I&#x27;d suggest to turn `which-key` on and install helpful-key. It&#x27;s a software with the premise that you need to learn obscure key combinations.