I installed it on my Slackware 15.0 system and it went great, But one warning, you may need to add this exact line to the very first like of some .el files. Then maybe "compile" the .el files to .elc

;; -- lexical-binding: nil --

I had to add it to ~/.emacs, ~/.emacs.d/elpa/elpher-3.7.0/elpher.el and file ps-ccrypt.el to avoid an error message that kept popping up.

I don’t know if I have brain space to learn a new text editor too.

That is pretty much what has stopped me from even attempting to learn emacs over the years.

I've never used it. I like VIM a great deal, but there's certainly room for improvement. Emacs would be a big change and I'm scared. I'm constantly learning about my system and how to do things, and I don't know if I have brain space to learn a new text editor too.

As a decades long Vim user, this article made me consider looking at emacs again. I'm interested in learning more of the nitty gritty of his implementation than the broad over view given here.

it does require an internet connection yes. It doesn't have much in the way of offline functionality (it just interacts directly with the API). I'm not sure if Codeberg allows Tor access.

I looked into the dependencies just now. I thought I maybe only used a few 29 functions, but actually I heavily use vtable, which is 29 too. Maybe look in to getting Emacs from Debian backports, or even building it yourself (I do so, and I'm not at all an experienced source-builder person: it's quite easy, and also common.)

Glad to hear about that! The page was unreachable (at least from Tor) but this works: http://web.archive.org/web/20250317184645/https://codeberg.org/martianh/lem.el

I get the impression from the readme that it requires an Internet connection to use. I might still be able to use it in some ways but I’ll try to compose msgs while offline and save a local copy.

(update) I get this when trying to install:

package-compute-transaction: Package ‘emacs-29.1’ is unavailable

28.2 is the latest on debian stable. Is that my problem?

(my old) emacs lemmy client: https://codeberg.org/martianh/lem.el.

it works? i'm using it to post this...