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Bye Textmate. Hello Emacs.
Posted at 1:14 AM by Mitchell HashimotoJust a quick post to let you all know I’ve given up TextMate and have gone full emacs for my text editing needs.
Hint for OS X Users: Did you know in the “Keyboard and Mouse” section of your system preference you can remap your control keys? Well if you plan on using emacs I highly recommend you remap your caps lock key to control, it will make using emacs much more enjoyable 
And to those who wish to start a vim vs emacs war: I chose emacs since it has an “official” erlang mode which is distributed with the erlang source.
9 comments made so far.
Mitchell Hashimoto Sep 06, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Hi, I actually use pure terminal emacs using iTerm. I had to export my TERM environmental variable to be “xterm-256color” for it to work properly 
But it works great now
Ochronus Sep 06, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Thanks for the advice! I think I’ll stick with Aquamacs for a while, I’ve configured erlang-mode and distel, now all I have to do is learn emacs and erlang 
Mitchell Hashimoto Sep 06, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Ochronus, you’ve read the emacs mode manual on erlang.org right? If not, google that!
The only two features I use A LOT in erlang-mode in emacs is opening an erlang shell (C-c C-z) and compiling the current buffer (C-c C-k)
Ochronus Sep 06, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Thanks again for the tip! I’ve read the docs
friend Sep 30, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Would appreciate if given links for both textmate and emacs.
Vicent Oct 07, 2008 at 8:55 am
Hi,
¿Can you post how you get emacs working with Elrlang?
Thanks!
Mitchell Hashimoto Oct 30, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Vicent, if you google Erlang mode for emacs then there are quite a few results. You can add it into Erlang the normal way.
Pablo Dec 25, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Hi Mitch!
What do you think about IDEs like NetBeans or Eclipse? I saw the peepcode “emacs in 5 demo” and its very impressive.. However, is not all that easy to get up and running for someone that has never used emacs before…
I like IDEs because they help you with step-through debugging, refactoring, etc… For example, Netbeans has a very usable, well-maintained IDE for Rails… But It seams that now everybody in the RoR community is using emacs… so, i’m kind of confused….
Merry X-mas and Happy New Year!!
Pablo
http://peepcode.com/system/uploads/2008/peepcode-emacs-in-5-demo.mov
Ochronus Sep 06, 2008 at 11:27 am
Hi
Could you give me a hint about which emacs version would you recommend for OS X? I’ve seen Aquamacs, it looks nice. I’m a new emacs-aspirant 
Thanks in advance!