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I'd be careful about such conclusions without a study. It certainly doesn't fit my usage. I'm at least twice as likely to hit "emacs -nw" for a quick edit tha

• eadmund 9y ago
  > I'm at least twice as likely to hit "emacs -nw" for a quick edit than launch the GUI version. I think that alone marks you as an unusual emacs user; the standard pattern for using emacs is to leave it running all the time (either in a window, or as a dæmon), not to launch new instances. But yes, it would be interesting to have numbers. > Being useful in a terminal is a critical requirement for me. Oh, certainly; in fact, I have 'vi' aliased to 'emacsclient -t' these days for just that reason. It's awesome to have a powerful, extensible editor available in the terminal.
  • rkangel 9y ago
    What do you find that achieves for you that an X11 emacs running a server doesn't? I have EDITOR set to emacsclient (and some other aliases) and I find it far more convenient than an in-terminal editor, especially when combined with sudoedit.
    • eadmund 9y ago
      > What do you find that achieves for you that an X11 emacs running a server doesn't? I only use it for quick edits to files, when I don't want to turn my head from my terminal to my emacs window. Yeah, it's just a bit lazy …