Neovim vs Emacs | Roundtable w/ TJ DeVries, DistroTube, Greg Anders & Joshua Blais

Discussion between advanced and hardcore users of 2 similar, but very different worlds, the only 2 titans when it comes to text editing and life management: Neovim and Emacs.

Link to the video:

https://youtu.be/SnhcXR9CKno

What's the best way to support me?

https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough

Timeline:

00:00:00 - Highlights and agenda

00:03:03 - Who is TJ DeVries

00:03:51 - Who is Derek (DistroTube)

00:05:20 - Gregory Anders, Neovim Core and Ghostty Terminal contributor

00:10:01 - We need Ghostty sessions

00:10:43 - terminal.shop not shipping coffee to Canada, simply because they don't like Canadians

00:11:00 - Who is Joshua Blais

00:12:39 - Gregory Anders Neovim and workflow demo

00:18:59 - Greg does not use a plugin manager

00:20:16 - Evgeni Chasnovski (echasnovski mentioned)

00:22:41 - Configuring Neovim with Fennel and not Lua

00:24:42 - Gregory's love for Lua, Brazil mentioned

00:25:19 - nvim-parinfer plugin

00:26:04 - fennel-repl.nvim plugin

00:29:48 - DistroTube workflow and Emacs demo

00:31:10 - Emacs variable font size

00:33:35 - Emacs Eshell

00:34:31 - Woman pages in Emacs

00:36:51 - Teej Neovim Worklow and tricks

00:39:14 - Prime showed us how to navigate with tmux sessions, how do you navigate projects without tmux?

00:41:33 - Ivy theme in telescope (comes from Emacs)

00:42:46 - Teej Dynamic Neovim and dad jokes generator

00:46:34 - Supermaven and Awesomewm

00:47:39 - Are there any other macOS users here?

00:48:04 - What's that yoga ball in the background Teej? balls.yoga site

00:49:23 - Joshua Blais emacs and workflow demo

00:49:45 - How Kovid Goyal does everything in the terminal, including the variable font size protocol

00:51:55 - How Joshua wrote a book in Emacs

00:52:18 - Sending an Email from Emacs

00:53:37 - Playing music in Emacs

00:53:58 - Leaking keys and sending REST requests in Emacs

00:54:25 - kulala.nvim plugin mentioned, as a postman alternative in Neovim

00:55:55 - The problem with Emacs being single threaded

00:59:14 - Gregory's thoughts on Emacs, as a Neovim user

01:06:29 - DT's thoughts on Neovim as an Emacs user

01:08:00 - DTs thoughts on default emacs keybindings vs vim keybinds

01:09:05 - Org mode in Neovim is not just the same

01:11:18 - TJ's thoughts on Emacs

01:14:04 - Neovim and Emacs on the same team? Can we get along?

01:15:01 - Joshua Blais thoughts on Neovim

01:15:38 - Greg playing doom in Ghostty

01:18:04 - Shoutout to the doom emacs creator, Henrik Lissner

01:18:52 - Recommendation on someone just starting, Teej

01:20:26 - TJ: Neovim distro or no distro?

01:20:54 - Teej and Gregory love auto-updating plugins at startup, fax

01:23:22 - Recommendation on someone just starting, DT

01:24:06 - Gregory

01:26:25 - Blais

01:26:51 - If you're a macOS user, check out kindaVim

01:30:13 - Greg, how is maintaining 2 open source projects?

01:30:41 - Are we still live?

01:31:39 - Kovid Goyal has single handedly solved so many terminal problems

01:34:15 - Who started the GPU accelerated terminal paradigm, kovid or the alacritty guys?

01:35:59 - Can linux and macos be friends too?

01:37:51 - Greg thoughts on daily driving linux

01:41:37 - nix worthed?