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I'm UK based, London.

5+ years of experience. Typescript, Node (Express.js), AWS.

the vscodevim plugin still has problems with things like scrolling (c-e, c-y, c-d, c-u) and is missing ex commands. Evil is more comprehensive

The slow scrolling key-repeat issue was recently fixed.

This is cool!

This is a really cool idea, hope this spreads to other languages!

I always wondered why Emacs struggled to render certain visual elements as quickly as other editors (e.g. Sublime). For example, load in a relatively long line (not even ridiculously long), and it comes grinding to a halt, can't even edit text _near_ the long lines, if its in view! Same goes for linum mode being resource heavy. Why is this? I would have expected that a text editor built in the 70s should excel at rendering text quickly and efficiently?

Is the reason related to this blog post? Every time I tried to profile emacs it led me to the redisplay function, and from there i was lost..

Is there any hope that emacs will ever render code as quickly as modern 'native' apps (e.g sublime)??

I'm pretty fussy, and I haven't noticed any slowness when editing long lines on Emacs on OS X or Windows. Might be specific to the GTK port.

Do you mind telling me how you use kanban? I tried kanban.el but couldnt get it to update and populate the table, is there any way that emacs can auto-update live the kanban board based on todo states of items?? (e.g. if you hit shift + right for todo it is automatically seen in the todo column, without having to revert the file?)

Sure. I don't like kanban.el much.

After a lot of though, I had a little epiphany. Vanilla org-mode is great as a kanban as long as you don't try to visualize it as a table. One should use an outline instead. org-mode is an extension of outline-mode, so this should not be surprising.

Then everything is simple. Create custom states (I have TODO, PROG, WAIT & DONE). Agenda commands show you summarized views of the kanban. You can customize stuff with a bit of elisp, but org-mode as it is works great.

Note the outline version of a kanban is still 2D, as a table, but strictly more powerful (as you can nest tasks, add text) which would be next to impossible in a table.