Yesterday and today, Leeb and KatolaZ had the pleasure of watching me
rant, forget my own point, rant some more, go on a tangent, and then
rant about me losing my own point. This should make a bit more sense.


I'm a vim guy.  
Not because I'm old enough to have taken part in the great text editor
wars, but because I like pointy tools and figured that if this vim thing
was even half of what they say it is, it was worth learning.  

I've been through the same phase most of us younguns seem to go through
to some extent, which can be summarily described as trying to turn vim
into a standalone IDE, but lucky for me, I realized pretty quickly that
most of the stuff I'd tossed in my .vimrc only added redundancy, and
that I could access pretty much everything by popping another terminal,
which in my case is pretty painless as I've been using tiling window
managers for as long as I've been using unix derivatives seriously.
Yes that's a single sentence. Welcome to my brain.

So I tossed most of that crap away and only kept what are essentially
glorified wrappers, or pipes marginally too complex to come up with on
the spot.

I was pretty happy with my setup.
I still am... I think. 




Ok it's a little more complicated than that.  
I heard about lisp. I heard about scheme. I got really interested by the
various implementations sitting on top of an unrelated ecosystem like
clojure and hy.
And then I remembered emacs.  
Or should I say, I remembered spacemacs. It promised a vim-like
experience, with all the awareness that could be brought by the lisp
interpreter that powers emacs. It also has 2000 open issues on github.  
I don't really consider that a valid metric as far as quality goes, but
even assuming the majority of those issues boil down to " read the damn
doc you dum-dum ", there's still 2000 of them, meaning the devs have
been overrun. Also, there's just too damn much stuff in there. Gave it a
couple tries, figured out it wasn't for me and moved on.

I was pretty happy with my setup.
I still am... I think.




Fast forward a couple months, bringing us to early spring last year, I
found out about doom-emacs, which is basically some dude who had similar
gripes with spacemacs, building a less kitchen-sinky version of it, with
more of a focus on being a proper substitute for vim.
I bought into that ecosystem pretty hard. I even ported my theme to it
-- doom uses a neat preprocessor, not *good* but neat --.

I don't use it. I do all the same stuff just fine in vim, without
triggering stuff I didn't even know existed every time I make a typo.




I suppose I don't do anything that'd really benefit from working inside
the emacs box.
There's only one last thing I really keep eyeing, and it's the same
thing a lot of vim users seem to lust over. Hell, even emacs users seem
to lust over it.

	
	
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The hype surrounding org-mode is such that it sounds like the second
coming of christ, if he had an uzi in each hand, wore an oculus rift,
smoked DMT out of a can of pringles and taught us all how to love 
one another in utf-8.

I don't get it. 
Everytime I tried it, it felt like watching my yuppie uncle thumb
through his filofax, but with a neat markup language.
Every video I watched felt like watching my yuppie uncle thumb through
his filofax, but with a neat markup language.
Every article I read felt like yadda yadda yadda.

And yet, I still feel like I'm missing something.
I'm sure I can fix that with the right plugins...