I'm trying Emacs
February 16, 2026
02/16/2026
Emacs diary entry #1
I've told myself that this is the year I give Emacs a try. My goal is to either be using it as my full time editor by the end of 2026 or have a very good reason for why I'm not.
It took me close to an hour to get Doom emacs correctly installed correctly on my mac so we're off to a bad start. I've never been a tool-tinkerer type. VSCode has been "good enough" for years, but I definitely recognize there is value in fine-tuning an editor to your needs.
Motivations (as of today):
- Speeding up my workflow - removing my mouse from the equation
- Hoping to build an appetite for tool-tinkering
- Curiosity (what am I missing out on?)
- In a world where AI is writing most code I think learning to build custom tooling around those agents will be important
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