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All these points are also natively handled by vim. Except for 5 which needs an external cli calculator.
by seszett 6y ago
All these points are also natively handled by vim. Except for 5 which needs an external cli calculator.
- billfruit 6y agoBut are those functionality available natively without plugins? All these are in the default emacs distribution possibly since more than 20 years, and are in a very usable, stable state of functionality.
- seszett 6y agoSome of them do take plugins (the netrw plugin I think) but this plugin is included and active in a default install.
- animal_spirits 6y agoAren't these technically plugins for emacs that are shipped with the editor? Org-mode is a plugin for emacs too right?
- jolux 6y agoSure but what’s the difference? That’s the beauty (and occasional curse) of Emacs. There’s no hard line between “native” code and plugins, outside of the Emacs Lisp interpreter.
- animal_spirits 6y agoExactly. Its the basically same way with vim. Some plugins are distributed with the editor and some are not
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- JNRowe 6y agoEven without resorting to external tools the expression register(:h @=) can act as a surprisingly good builtin calculator, and there is a moderately large builtin math library(:h functions). Like all registers you can abuse it in many ways too, like as dirty inplace calculator when you're writing docs. For example, yank a example calculation, insert from register(:h i_CTRL-R_=), operate on your yank(:h @").