A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)
It is difficult to even describe a productive hand tuned to fit the individual Emails setup compared to standard.<p>Here are some of my favorite Emacs things:<p>Helm + Projectile. Helm will fuzzy complete almost anything in Emacs. Projectile is project management. Together get to any Git repo and file there in very quick. Helm is an option to compare to IDO. I rarely use IDO due to Helm.<p>Magit, widely regarded as a good Git UI. Using is believing. Better than command line or most GUIs for me.<p>Various editing nodes are good enough (Python, Lisp of course, Markdown).<p>Org mode is it's own beast, but if you like outlines and productivity tools Org is very nice. I use it, not extensively. It holds my todos and meeting notes and makes it easy to ha e very complex notes in one doc.<p>Basic text editing. I think Vi has some things it does better than Emacs here, but it is still very powerful and rewards learning the finer details.<p>Realizing you are in a Lisp machine. A calculator is no further than your Emacs window. Learning to hack Lisp and elisp is its own reward.<p>I think the time spent learning it is worth it. I think the math checks out in terms of efficiency. I also know Emacs is not going anywhere. Same with Vi.<p>There is much more to it all, but these are things off the top of my head. There are many smaller things that connect up how I work via Emacs... But there is a lot to it.