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To hinder me of getting carried away - like so often - I will follow a

I will time-constrain myself while researching and configuring see.

To my workflow or when I am veritably encountering a problem or useĬase where the builtin feature is limiting me

I will only research a part of Emacs when it is genuinely relevant.

I will not configure any other part of Emacs, may it be cosmetically.

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At first I will install no* other package and evaluate everyīuilt-in functionality if it is enough for my use-case.I will force myself to go step-by-step, loosely following the Emacs.Me publicizing this hopefully makes me go through with this, regarding Of starting this project - Learn Emacs the ADHD way - which is justĪ collection of rules I will lay onto myself to truly learn Emacs. (you see the pattern here, right?), in the end I came up with the idea Is the case especially when trying to learn something new and shiny.Īfter countless hours evaluating this idea and that procedure So I had to come up with something, as always, to contain my ADHD - this Productive with this package and supposedly making my workflowĮasier with that package - without ever really learning Emacs.

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Suffice to say, I never really got stuffĭone, being too busy configuring Emacs and planning how to be more I over-engineered the smallest things,īrowsed through init.el after init.el on GitHub and always found a I spent countless days reading about a million things I thought of being

There was nothing, except my ADHD kicking in. 'so now there is actually nothing holding me back anymore!' Well, IĬould just use Emacs, kind of, like the way I used Vim and could learnĪnd customize Emacs along the way. This made the transition from Vim to Emacs a lot less daunting to me. Of an emulation layer, giving one the possibility to use vim keybindings Got completely blown off when I learned about evil-mode, which is kind Not being productive while learning and researching all of theĪforementioned things, but the biggest concern - the new keybinding.

The things that always held me back were the completely different keyīindings, the necessity of learning Lisp at some point and the time of Org, the possibility of configuring my editor with an actual - and sane - (programming) language - opposed to the abomination that is Vim script - the community, the trillions of packages, just to name a few. Naturally I have always been intrigued by Emacs and its capabilities: As a long-time vim user I always fantasized about having one place to doĪll my usual computing, note taking, email and task management.

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