I’ve been searching for a perfect desktop setup for as long as i remember using computer. KDE3, Gnome2, KDE4, switching from (then still) OpenOffice to Kate for everything, drop-down terminal, excursions to *box and awesome, then finally settling with 10-virtual-desktop layout and a handful of shortcuts.
Now’s the time has come to move further, to the land of even better ergonomics. And the first step is Emacs. I’ve been slowly moving towards it in the last few weeks and now i’m writing this post in Emacs, running jekyll in terminal inside Emacs and watching the “rendered” page in emacs-w3m (because eww was freezing Emacs way too often).
Of course, Emacs is not perfect. It is great because of its large legacy (has a tool for virtually everything), but its legacy also affects its useability in some ways. To put it blunt: i don’t like Lisp these days. And lack of integration with some of the common desktop GNU/Linux can be daunting (such as no shortcuts with non-latin ibus layout; out of the box, at least - maybe it can be configured somehow).
At some point, perhaps, i’ll have to look further, for a truly silver bullet of computing. But for now it mostly feels nice to be switching from using a bunch of tools with different interfaces and quirks to just one, fully controllable with keyboard.
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