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> It's odd to me that Emacs wasn't mentioned at all. I use it for most of my computing (email, music, file management, etc.) and it works well enough in the ter

> It's odd to me that Emacs wasn't mentioned at all. I use it for most of my computing (email, music, file management, etc.) and it works well enough in the terminal if the Meta-key works properly, as opposed to needing to use Escape. Yes, and literally every point on his list has something in Emacs to handle it -- it is my favorite operating system, just needs a good text editor, as the old joke goes. Sure, not all of the in-emacs tools are as nice as some of things like `w3m` and `w3m-image`... but they are all there, for every facet listed, and some of them are even better in Emacs. Old joke aside, I bet Emacs' text editing and word processing abilities (with some packages installed) are as good as or better than those found in WordGrinder. Emacs plays nice with `tmux`, but also provides its own in-emacs windowing. You can even run full ANSI terminals within Emacs and then run anything (such as `cmus`) that might not have a direct in-emacs integration within an Emacs terminal buffer.

TeMPOraL 7y ago
> and some of them are even better in Emacs. Even if not, interoperability is the killer feature of Emacs as a platform. Just try to shuttle data between spreadsheet, e-mail and web-browser with the tools mentioned above. In Emacs it's trivial - and not only that, it's also trivial to write snippets of elisp that shuttle the data for you or otherwise automate whatever workflow you have.
- perl4ever 7y ago
  "Just try to shuttle data between spreadsheet, e-mail and web-browser with the tools mentioned above" Have you ever tried MS Office + VBA for comparison purposes?
  - TeMPOraL 7y ago
    I did! Elisp is a better language :). Microsoft does understand interoperability; Office suite integrates well together and applications respect power users. I like them for that.
mcbuilder 7y ago
Ironically though in this case, emacs doesn't play nearly as nice itself though when run without X or it's GUI. I used nox-emacs for years before finally giving up and switched to the GUI. For instance, w3m will only display images when you are in a GUI window, where I've gotten w3m from a proper frame buffer displaying fine.

TeMPOraL 7y ago

> and some of them are even better in Emacs. Even if not, interoperability is the killer feature of Emacs as a platform. Just try to shuttle data between spreadsheet, e-mail and web-browser with the tools mentioned above. In Emacs it's trivial - and not only that, it's also trivial to write snippets of elisp that shuttle the data for you or otherwise automate whatever workflow you have.

perl4ever 7y ago
"Just try to shuttle data between spreadsheet, e-mail and web-browser with the tools mentioned above" Have you ever tried MS Office + VBA for comparison purposes?
- TeMPOraL 7y ago
  I did! Elisp is a better language :). Microsoft does understand interoperability; Office suite integrates well together and applications respect power users. I like them for that.

mcbuilder 7y ago

Ironically though in this case, emacs doesn't play nearly as nice itself though when run without X or it's GUI. I used nox-emacs for years before finally giving up and switched to the GUI. For instance, w3m will only display images when you are in a GUI window, where I've gotten w3m from a proper frame buffer displaying fine.