I personally havent really used emacs for organizing, but I really like it for bash coding and writing software documenation in orgmode. I am even starting to get a little bit comfortable at writing my .emacs file but at some point I will have to do a lot of reorganizing and updating and I kind of dont want to do it (I still use .emacs and not emacs.d/init.el and all keybindings still use the legacy global-set-key command).
Apart from the work I am putting into it it is really great, because when I actually get to do stuff I can do so with great efficency. I am even starting to miss my emacs keybinds when not using emacs (especially ctrl-k for killing from your cursor position to the end of the line ctrl-a for jumping to the beginning of a line and ctrl-e for jumping to the end of a line). At this point when I am writing stuff in emacs (as example working on a bash script) I at maximum use my mouse for scrolling.
Fuck, I really did turn into the meme (and I am not even using it for longer than 4-5 months at maximum)___
A number of software packages permit use of basic emacs keybindings.
It’s the default in bash, which uses readline. If someone is a vi user, they can enable vi keystrokes in software that uses readline with
editing-mode viin their ~/.inputrc.For GTK-based apps, looking on my system:
GTK 1: in ~/.gtkrc:
GTK 2: in ~/.gtkrc-2.0:
GTK 3: in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
GTK 4 apparently can’t do this.
Note that this can collide with other keybindings that a given GTK app has assigned to it. I moved the standard Firefox modifier key from Control to Alt to reduce the impact of that on my system. That was a little obnoxious to get worked into muscle memory, but I did ultimately manage it.