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I think it really comes down to having the patience to learn how to extend your personal Emacs setup with the built in programming language: Emacs Lisp. From pe

by ddavis 6y ago

I think it really comes down to having the patience to learn how to extend your personal Emacs setup with the built in programming language: Emacs Lisp. From personal experience I can say that learning the basics of Emacs Lisp turned my relationship with Emacs from "preferred" to "nothing else measures up"

gfxgirl 6y ago
Ever other editor has a programming language for modifying it. What makes emacs special? couldn't you script all those other editors to do the same things? I'd certainly feel my editor was amazing if I scripting 50 custom features but I wouldn't consider my editor better if I can script those same 50 features in any editor. I'd just consider the cost of switching high and not confuse that with whether one editor is better than another.