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I hadn’t updated on the status of my little Emacs experiment lately, simply because I’ve gravitated away from it. Of late, I’ve been back to using Vi(m) or whatever else is available to me to do things. I know enough about Emacs that I can get into a file, edit it and get back out, but that’s about the extent of my knowledge. I’ve decided that I’m going to wander back to Vim-land and be happy with that editor. Granted, Emacs is pretty cool, but I’ve used Vim the most and I plan to expand my Vim knowledge a bit more, and hopefully reduce me dependence on GUI-based IDEs in the future. I wouldn’t say it was a waste of time, but it just affirms the fact that I dig Vim a bit more than I do Emacs.

I’m becoming a little annoyed with Emacs now. While it’s been pretty ok to use on a day-to-day basis for notes and other text chores, getting down and actually coding with it is quite, at least to me, annoying. My biggest problem is auto-indent. I can’t seem to shut this feature off to save my life, and it drives me insane. It seems to vary depending on the mode I’m in (php, python, etc), and the modes seem to override the settings in my .emacs file. While I do enjoy planner mode, the coding side of Emacs is basically annoying the heck out of me right now, and with what I’m working on, I’m thinking an IDE is going to suit me better in the long run. I may find the exact formula to change the behavior, but lately I’m not all that interested in that, rather than finding what’s going to be the most comfortable setup for me.