Thanks a lot for the suggestions, I will try them out.

I've been running Linux (Ubuntu 18.04 with Gnome) on my Dell XPS 13 for a while now and its been working quite well. My biggest concern was mobility, like attaching it to different DPI monitors and have things work well still. With Gnome as my shell, it has been keeping up quite well with the expectations (except some programs not picking up changes right, e.g. IntelliJ).

I had moved off of OSX after the new gen of MacBookPros were unusable for me. I was using Windows + WSL for a while but eventually decided to give Linux a try. Things have been quite smooth really. Since most of my dev is around docker etc. it feels like home (not that OSX Docker experience was bad, Windows I can't say).

That font looks lovely, what would be closest alternative I could find today to make my editor look that way? Not even sure what I should be googling for.

I'm neither a typewriter nor font expert but I think it's a monospaced font and since IBM is mentioned maybe it was from an IBM Selectric typewriter?

I've seen font files based on that before, a Google for IBM selectric font looks not totally dissimilar.

Maybe that helps?

Monospaced fonts, especially: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courier_(typeface)

It's not Courier, though. Similar, but the g and numerals are different.

I'm going to guess it was an IBM selectric using the pica72 font typeball.

http://munk.org/typecast/2013/11/03/gp-ibm-selectric-typebal...

Bitstream has a $$ font called Pica 10 Pitch if you're interested.

https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/pica-10-pitch/

n.b - the typist used lower-case L instead of the number 1.

Yeah, looks very similar to the Courier font. Thanks!

https://imgur.com/a/5izg3YW Not bad with basic solarized light theme and slightly heavier font.

I've been a vim user for a while now, recently started my move over to emacs (evil mode is not bad at all), mostly influenced by the Clojure community.

What does neovim do for a not so hardcore user like me who's happy with the current state of affairs? Or in other words, what am I not doing right with vim that I fail to see what neovim offers, apart from a modern code base and may be a better way of writing plugins?

I would say an easier way to create plugins is a pretty big advantage. For some reason I've always been deterred from writing vim plugins, and like you I started using Emacs a few months ago (mostly for the haskell packages), and I feel so much more comfortable writing and editing my own extensions. I've never really looked into neovim, but they're plugin architecture looks really nice so I'll have to check it out.

Nice! did some digging: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Plugin-UI-architecture

That's actually pretty nice, was wondering if there are real tools/apps/interfaces out there which are using this as just a POC or a demo.

This is also interesting btw: https://github.com/neovim/python-client will definitely give that a try!

Some plugins that target neovim:

- Floobits: https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-neovim

- Neomake: https://github.com/benekastah/neomake

I recently added neovim support to vim-pandoc. These[1] two lines replaced [2] and [3]. It's quite the improvement.

[1]: https://github.com/vim-pandoc/vim-pandoc/blob/master/pythonx...

[2]: https://github.com/vim-pandoc/vim-pandoc/blob/master/pythonx...

[3]: https://github.com/vim-pandoc/vim-pandoc/blob/master/pythonx...

Nice!

For me the biggest advantage will be the support for embedding in other programs, so we can do away with the proliferation of imperfect vim emulators.

If you store your images on a bunch of online storage locations, you could use http://mazira.me to see them all at one place (even from inside your email).

I have had good success following this: http://blog.stackpop.com/post/47149734131/our-50-adjustable-...

Here's my desk: https://twitter.com/udaykverma/status/386164901929959424

Nice!

I've been trying to learn Clojure and develop this in the process:

https://github.com/verma/dakait More info and screenshots: http://udayv.com/dakait/

Helps you download remote files to your local servers using simple tagging over a web-interface.

Just to add, my use case and motivation behind this tool has been staging content locally from my seed boxes. I am posting it here hoping that people find it useful.