# Emacs

I tend to use Emacs with *evil-mode* for any kind of extended editing and programming, unless I'm using an IDE (with a Vim plugin of course!) in the latter case.

One of the disadvantages of evil-mode is that there's a high chance that advanced commands *might* not as expected in Emacs. For example, `:normal ...` commands do not work in evil-mode. Also Vim regex and Emacs regex are not really compatible - so your Vim regex know-how will not translate directly to Emacs. So, when it comes to raw editing Vim probably is the better editor from my experience.

However, with evil-mode one can easily use Emacs editing functionality as well which comes with the downside of haing to learn two disparate kind of editing paradigmns.

## Configuration distributions

### Spacemacs

This is what I have been using for a couple of years and I would recommend this someome wanting to transition from Vim to an Emacs workflow.

### [Doom Emacs](https://github.com/dewaka/wiki/tree/d44d1d2fd0ecdfa632746dee860379a151a94828/text-editors/emacs/doom.md)

I have been trying this configuration package recently and I am quite impressed with the low startup overhead of the Doom configuration.

### Blogs

* [Xah Emacs Blog](http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/blog.html)
* [Emacs Rocks](http://emacsrocks.com/)
* [Sacha Chua - Emacs](https://sachachua.com/blog/category/emacs/) - Sacha's

  blog has a treasure trove of Emacs knowledge both written by herself and

  aggregated links.