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It's a bit of both. I think the joke was mostly driven by Emacs which - due to how incredibly flexible the Elisp interpret is - started gaining plugins to do th
by dguaraglia 9y ago
It's a bit of both. I think the joke was mostly driven by Emacs which - due to how incredibly flexible the Elisp interpret is - started gaining plugins to do the most absurd things. There is, for example, a full "web browser" mode, a full-blown email client, even an implementation of the Snake game.
- na85 9y agoYou can have my nyan cat modeline when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
- dguaraglia 9y agoHaha,I'll confess that as a Vim user I was a bit jealous when I saw that. The Vimscript implementations are subpar.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoYou're welcome! :).
- TeMPOraL 9y agoThe funny thing is, Emacs does a lot of those things better than the dedicated applications. It seems that anything that involves text or textual representations can be done in Emacs better, and every feature you import composes with each other nicely and consistently, leading to more speed and more power.