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Neovim vs Emacs | Roundtable w/ TJ DeVries, DistroTube, Greg Anders & Joshua Blais
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- Sep 16, 2025
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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 Ema…