> Can you talk about a few use cases where emacs is just better than an IDE could be? I don't use Emacs at present (Neovim instead), but I find TTY based progr

> Can you talk about a few use cases where emacs is just better than an IDE could be? I don't use Emacs at present (Neovim instead), but I find TTY based programs to be genuinely more productive and flexible once you make it past the initial learning curve. Using tmux and ssh to seamlessly float between devices with an ongoing complex editing session immediately comes to mind. I've also used both Eclipse and Visual Studio at different times and distinctly recall what I can only describe as lumbering startup times. Ranger via ssh is often much more straightforward to use (for basic operations and browsing) than trying to click through a bunch of menus and sort out network mounting issues. Neovim does lack advanced refactoring tools out of the box, and I've never gone looking so I can't comment. I suspect Language Server Protocol may change that in the near future though. Regarding the possibilities afforded by the sheer level of customization, vim-fugitive comes to mind though I'm sure there are better examples. (https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive)