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Vim is with respect, just an editor. Emacs is often confused as being an editor, but it's not. It certainly houses a few different editors, including Vim (as
by jasonm23 8y ago
Vim is with respect, just an editor.
Emacs is often confused as being an editor, but it's not.
It certainly houses a few different editors, including Vim (as people will often point out eVil is Vim inside Emacs)
Emacs is basically a text centric computing platform, built with a flavor of Lisp.
At this point there's several thousand apps / packages.
It used to be a joke that Emacs is an Operating System that lacks a decent text editor. These days it has several.
The joke now should be that it lacks a decent logo and marketing department.
Or perhaps the joke should be that Vim users are terrified they're missing out on something they don't get so they use snark as a defense mechanism.
- azinman2 8y ago> “Emacs is basically a text centric computing platform, built with a flavor of Lisp.” That’s actually the best explanation of Emacs I’ve heard. Thank you.
- schwurb 8y agoI always think of Emacs (never used it tho) as a Smalltalk system without images and with Lisp instead of Smalltalk as the underlying language. Every visible and invisible think is inspectable and changable at runtime, yup - pretty cool and I loved it for programming! Not sure whether I want to get on the emacs train tho. I have problems mantaining efficiency either way already... And I favor tools that work without set-up. Then again I am still young enough that learning investments pay off by a huge margin... tough.
- phillord 8y ago"Text-centric computing platform" is lovely. Why don't you send that to Nicolas Petton -- it would great on the website.