My first post with emacs

I've wanted, for a little while, to find a better way to have a focused writing environment. I've been a vim user for a little bit, now, but for gemtext in particular, I'm not a big fan of the terminal experience. I wanted something a little more GUI-ful so that my headings could actually be a different size from my paragraphs. I considered, and even started, writing my own editor up using SDL as a backend, but I got overwhelmed by it, and at some point, I realized that maybe emacs could be it.

There's a gemtext-mode available on MELPA, and after some fiddling, I was able to alter the font sizes and styles of some elements. It was a process:

• First, setting up Debian backports so that I could grab a version of emacs compatible with gemtext-mode
• then, learn how to set up init.el and package.el to actually load the thing
• finally, figure out how to change the faces defined by gemtext-mode.

but we're here, and my headings are a different size and font from my paragraphs.

Impressions of emacs as a vim user: it's okay. I haven't even fully worked my way through the tutorial, so the only shortcuts I know are for navigation; it will take a while for me to reach a point where I'm as smooth in this as I am for vim. I don't know how jazzed I am about the amount of Ctrl-key pressing I have to do; it might be nicer if I had a funky keyboard that had control closer at hand. And yes, I know evil exists. Maybe once I finish the tutorial and know how to do some of the common actions I'd do in vim, I can have a more educated opinion.