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

A panel of Neovim and Emacs power users discuss the strengths, weaknesses, and philosophies of both text editors.

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. TJ DeVries (CEO terminal.shop) @teej_dv Gregory Anders (Neovim Core Maintainer) github.com/gpanders DistroTube (Emacs Enthusiast and YouTuber) @DistroTube Joshua Blais (Emacs Evangelist joshblais.com) @JoshuaBlais You wanna promote yourself in my channel: linkarzu.com/about/#community-driven-promotion ------------------------------------------------- If you're not a YouTube member yet, you can join here: youtube.com/channel/UCrSIvbFncPSlK6AdwE2QboA/join 00:00:00 - Highlights 00:01:13 - Teej handing out a signed copy of the Neovim help manual to the CEO of cursor 00:02:31 - Agenda 00:03:03 - Who is TJ DeVries 00:03:51 - Who is Derek (DistroTube) 00:05:20 - Meet Gregory Anders, Neovim Core and Ghostty Terminal contributor 00:08:07 - The problem of not having terminal standards and trying to come to agreements 00:08:54 - Benefits of being a maintainer in both Neovim and Ghostty 00:10:01 - Speaking for tmux users here. 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 00:11:33 - Josh's adventure with Neovim and going back to Emacs 00:12:39 - Gregory Anders Neovim and workflow demo 00:15:03 - Gregory now using Jujutsu instead of Git 00:16:05 - Gregory hates dealing with colorschemes 00:16:37 - Low contrast or high contrast colorschemes? 00:18:59 - Greg does not use a plugin manager, and his thoughts 00:20:16 - Evgeni Chasnovski (echasnovski mentioned) mini plugins, when the interview? 00:22:41 - Configuring Neovim with Fennel and not Lua 00:24:42 - Gregory's love for Lua, Brazil mentioned, but not in a good way 00:25:19 - Gregory nvim-parinfer plugin 00:26:04 - Gregory fennel-repl.nvim plugin 00:26:47 - How many hours have you put into your Neovim config? 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 00:38:08 - Teej saying he doesn't have anything against tmux, when he clearly does 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 plug