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(1) There is GUI Emacs (what you should probably use). (2) There's no better environment available for dealing with text (including notes, papers, slides, emai
by _emacsomancer_ 6y ago
(1) There is GUI Emacs (what you should probably use).
(2) There's no better environment available for dealing with text (including notes, papers, slides, email, &c.) than Emacs.
Why do you hate future programmers so much?
- snazz 6y agoGUI Emacs is a very thin GUI skin on TTY Emacs. As an example someone brought up elsewhere in this thread, you can't scroll (with the mouse) in Emacs without bringing the cursor with you. Scrolling without moving the cursor doesn't make sense in a TUI environment, so it doesn't exist in the GUI version either. Your second point is very subjective and most people are bound to disagree with it. You certainly can't argue that like it's an objective fact, because it's very much not objective.
- catalogia 6y ago> Scrolling without moving the cursor doesn't make sense in a TUI environment It makes perfect sense as soon as you realize there is no reason the cursor has to be the cursor. In curses: curs_set(0); then draw your own 'cursor' wherever you like. Anyway, GUI emacs is way better than terminal emacs. Image support (in terminal emulators this is always an awful hack) and support for different font sizes in the same frame at once is something I'd not give up.
- _emacsomancer_ 6y agoIt's not really so thin: there's plenty of graphics-related things that don't work in TTY Emacs.