dotfiles VS smart-god-mode

The colors are mostly from zenburn

https://github.com/fiddlerwoaroof/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs...

Yeah, that’s definitely where I’ve ended up: I have a lot of lisp code, but it’s more of a toolbox for my shell (REPL) than standalone programs.

However, I’ve settled on a pattern that works pretty well for the few small tools I write: https://github.com/fiddlerwoaroof/dotfiles/blob/18cecfc93bcf...

I use these keys every day for just about every sort of balanced delimiter manipulation I do in any language: https://github.com/fiddlerwoaroof/dotfiles/blob/eff889f0b749...

A little below I bind this key map to the “,” prefix and I’ve found my layout of paredit commands pretty ergonomic to use long-term.

What made a difference for me was figuring out the right keybindings. The default keybindings in emacs weren’t very ergonomic and so I came up with a more convenient set of keybindings (for evil-mode, since I prefer vim-style editing). They follow a nice pattern on the keyboard and made a huge difference.

I eventually adapted them so I could have relatively consistent keybindings across vim/emacs/VSCode/IntelliJ and the results are here:

https://github.com/fiddlerwoaroof/dotfiles/blob/b13240a42fa4...

If you understand the elisp keybinding notation, it’s possible to use the C-, ones in VSCode.

Yeah, I don’t have home-manager generate configurations for vim. I have home-manager generate a symlink to my version-controlled vimrc. This way I get the quick setup benefits of home-manager without the slow reload times.

Incidentally, I just polished my script for working around that issue: https://github.com/fiddlerwoaroof/dotfiles/blob/master/scrip...

https://github.com/fiddlerwoaroof/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs.d/lisp/configurations/evil-conf.el#L67-L143

But at this point, it seems we are just trying to predict when we want god-mode and when not. I had set up a not-smart smart-god-mode a while ago. Its smart in the sense it allows you to set certain preferences about when do you want to go into god-mode and when you want to exit. It is dumb in the sense it does not learn anything, all the preferences are hardcoded.

*Shameless plug: Earlier this year (2020), I feared I might develop RSI without a modal-editing mode like evil in emacs. I also read somewhere that evil doesn't play very nice with everything emacs. Stumbled upon god-mode, but found it too frustrating tonswitch between the 'insert' and 'command' modes - and I suspected I'll have the same frustration with evil. So, cooked up smart-god-mode.