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First you say: >completely different product then call them both >text editors emacs and (g)vim have a gui mode.
by zxcvcxz 11y ago
First you say:
>completely different product
then call them both
>text editors
emacs and (g)vim have a gui mode.
- sghodas 11y agoYes, they're both text editors, but they're completely different classes of text editors. MS Word is also a text editor, but it would be ridiculous to fault it for not having a CLI. It's nice that Emacs and Vim have GUI modes, but I doubt they're the primary way users use those editors. Emacs/Vim and VS Code/Sublime/Atom fulfill different needs and preferences. I'm curious about your answer to this: would you argue that MS should combine Word and VS Code into one text editor?
- gryph0n 11y agoFWIW, I recall a time when Word used have a CLI. My memory fades, but I think it was either v4 or v5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word#Origins_and_growth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word#Origins_and_gro... The Internet Archive seems to have a version listed on the 'Abandonware' listings. https://archive.org/details/msdos_microsoft_word5 https://archive.org/details/msdos_microsoft_word5