Trying Vanilla Emacs as a Neovim user continues with Day 3, and this time I actually follow the built-in Emacs tutorial.
In this livestream, I keep testing Emacs from the perspective of someone who normally lives inside Neovim, Kitty, macOS, and a keyboard-driven workflow. I go through the basic Emacs movement commands, try to understand Ctrl-F, Ctrl-B, Ctrl-N, Ctrl-P, Ctrl-A, Ctrl-E, Meta key movement, sentence navigation, undo, and the general Emacs way of thinking.
The unexpected part is how much of this also works in macOS. Emacs-style keybindings are available in many macOS text fields, including apps like TextEdit, browser address bars, and other places where text input exists. So this became more than just “trying Emacs.” It turned into discovering how Emacs, macOS, and text navigation are weirdly connected.
I also compare the Emacs learning curve with learning Vim motions for the first time. At the beginning, everything feels painful, slow, and mentally exhausting, but I already went through that with Vim and Neovim, so I know the friction is part of the process.
This is not me switching to Emacs. I am still a Neovim user. But I want to actually try Emacs properly before saying whether I like it or hate it.
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