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Emacs is a fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-platform text editor.

• yxhuvud 9y ago
  Fast, unless you happen to have very very long lines and word wrap enabled.
  • RBerenguel 9y ago
    Syntax highlighting in very large files is what kills it for me. I usually open very very large files in literal mode to avoid lag
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• sigzero 9y ago
  Minimalist? Really now.
  • snaky 9y ago
    Well, it depends on what you compare it with. IDEA, Visual Studio, Eclipse, you know. Of course, comparing to nano and nvi, Emacs isn't so much minimalist - but hey, did you ever try to run Emacs with no elisp packages?
  • msla 9y ago
    Comparing Emacs with ed is a point in ed's favor, sure. Ditto Emacs and Notepad, or nano. Comparing Emacs with anything else is more likely to look favorable to Emacs.
  • yellowapple 9y ago
    It's basically a Lisp machine runtime that happens to include a built-in text editing window. Compared to the likes of Visual Studio, Eclipse, or Sublime, though, it's certainly minimalist. The typical "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" joke is a bit quaint nowadays.