A blog post written with NeoVim
It's been one of those days where I get mad at Emacs.
It’s been the kind of day where using (or trying to use) Emacs frustrates me.
I’ve spent the past few weeks adapting my custom Emacs configuration to work on Linux. I was so confident that I would be moving to Linux that I ignored anything that might not work cross-platform. I should know better.
Today I was using my Mac and fired up Emacs and of course nothing worked. I spent nearly 2 hours futzing with it and I still don’t know what’s gone wrong. Reviewing Git commits hasn’t narrowed it down, either. It’s not the fact that I broke Emacs, it’s more that I’m so capable of breaking Emacs at any time. I do it more than I care to. I’m not in the mood, ya know?
My mood today has been less than festive, so my problems with Emacs just made a bad thing worse, so I quit Emacs in a huff.
I installed the MiniMax configuration for NeoVim and I am typing this post using it. I didn’t write a line of configuration and I didn’t tweak a thing. It’s working fine, for now.
MiniMax isn’t as fancy as LazyVim, but it’s also not as seizure-inducing by default. It strikes a nice balance between friendly and frenzied.
It’s not like I’m switching permanently back to Vim, but when I’m mad at Emacs, this NeoVim setup is pretty nice. Sometimes Emacs and I get into a destructive relationship, and we take a little break. That’s probably all this is.