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I've been curious about emacs, and tried it once without know what the hell I was doing. But I've heard enough good things that I'm considering trying again.

I run i3 and vim, so I already have my tiling WM dialed in, and I'm good enough with vim that I don't struggle with using it. I have almost 0 interest in learning Lisp, beyond what I'm willing to learn to make emacs fit my use-case. I spend all day in terminal windows. I've heard about ORG-mode, and wondered if it will help me become more organized.

I killer-feature of vim that I've edited into my work-flow is that I have it auto-save a backup copy+time stamp of any file I save. It's a VCS-style hack, that 'works for me' and I think it is a better fit then git would be under the situation. (i.e. httpd.conf_2020-04-15_14:10:01)

Can a similar hack be incorporated into emacs?



Yes.

Though, I would say, you should really look at something like https://github.com/ryuslash/git-auto-commit-mode so your directories don't get cluttered with save files.




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