I personally havent really used emacs for organizing, but I really like it for bash coding and writing software documenation in orgmode. I am even starting to get a little bit comfortable at writing my .emacs file but at some point I will have to do a lot of reorganizing and updating and I kind of dont want to do it (I still use .emacs and not emacs.d/init.el and all keybindings still use the legacy global-set-key command).

Apart from the work I am putting into it it is really great, because when I actually get to do stuff I can do so with great efficency. I am even starting to miss my emacs keybinds when not using emacs (especially ctrl-k for killing from your cursor position to the end of the line ctrl-a for jumping to the beginning of a line and ctrl-e for jumping to the end of a line). At this point when I am writing stuff in emacs (as example working on a bash script) I at maximum use my mouse for scrolling.

Fuck, I really did turn into the meme (and I am not even using it for longer than 4-5 months at maximum)___

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      15 hours ago

      If you’re specifically wanting to fiddle the Firefox keybinding the way I have (which may be too much effort for some people to deal with re-learning), the setting is:

      • Go change the GTK setting for the appropriate version of GTK. On my Debian trixie system, Firefox is using GTK 3:

          $ apt depends firefox|grep gtk
  
  WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
  
  Depends: libgtk-3-0t64 (>= 3.13.7)
  $

        I don’t know whether it will change to GTK 4 anytime soon.

      • Go to about:config in the Firefox URL bar.

      • Set ui.key.menuAccessKey to 0. Normally, IIRC — it’s been many years that I’ve had this set, so I don’t even really remember the original behavior for certain — Firefox uses Alt in sorta the same way Windows does, to open menus. I don’t like that, and this disables that functionality entirely to free up Alt.

      • Set ui.key.accelKey to 18. This makes the now-free Alt act like Control does as regards Firefox keyboard shortcuts.

      • I also have ui.key.contentAccess set to 0. It’s been many years since I’ve set this, but…let’s see. goes to look That disables the contentAccess key, prevents webpages from grabbing Shift-Alt-key sequences, which can also collide. Like, in the Lemmy HTML textarea that I’m currently writing this in, I can hit Shift-Alt-B and Shift-Alt-F to move the cursor forward and backward by a word while selecting text, the way I could in emacs (or, in emacs parlance, move point while extending the region).

      The problem is that now you’ve got Firefox, where things like “Alt-A” will select all text, and if you use other GUI apps, other apps, which may be using “Control-A” for that, so you gotta train your muscles to deal with it. I haven’t thought about it in many years, as it’s automatic now, but I remember it being super-obnoxious when I started.

      For me, it was worth it, because I use emacs all the time and Firefox all the time, and rarely use other graphical apps, so it reduced the amount of switching. But…depends on what someone’s particular situation is, whether that makes sense for them.

      EDIT: Had accidently written ui.key.contentAccess twice. Corrected the first instance to be ui.key.menuAccessKey.

      • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.orgOP
        2·
        16 hours ago

        Will definitely look into it. Currently Emacs and Firefox are about my main applications I use (except spyder, which is a python IDE)

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1·
          15 hours ago

          Well, cool. Hope it was helpful, then.

          I’ll also mention one other point, if you’re a big emacs and Firefox user. Won’t solve the issue for URL bars or other non-webpage text, but if you do a fair bit of writing in HTML textareas in webpages, like on Lemmy instances or something, you can hand that off to (actual) emacs.

          • Install the edit-server package for emacs (M-x list-packages, wait for the emacs package manager to load the list, go to edit-server, hit “i” to flag for install and “x” to execute, or M-x package-install and just type out “edit-server”).

          • In an emacs instance run M-x edit-server-start (or set it up to always run automatically at emacs startup but I run multiple emacs instances).

          • Grab the Edit with Emacs Firefox addon. Install.

          Now, by default all textareas will have a little blue button at the bottom reading “edit”. Click it, and your textarea will open up in emacs. C-c C-c to commit changes back to the textarea (Or C-x C-c, if you’re exiting that instance of emacs). You can also right-click on the textarea and choose “Edit with Emacs”.

          • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.orgOP
            1·
            15 hours ago
            • Install the edit-server package for emacs (M-x list-packages, wait for the emacs package manager to load the list, go to edit-server, hit “i” to flag for install and “x” to execute, or M-x package-install and just type out “edit-server”).

            Jokes on you, I already mapped M-x package-install to S-p i.

            But that also sounds interesting. Will definitely try it out (and if its just for writing Lemmy comments)