I use Emacs primarily for things other than editing and navigating code: I maintain many files of notes; I rename files and view directory listings (using Dir

I use Emacs primarily for things other than editing and navigating code: I maintain many files of notes; I rename files and view directory listings (using Dired); I pass command lines to Bash to be run. (End of list.) More to the point, whereas vscode would prove a mostly satisfactory replacement for Emacs for editing and navigating code, it is unlikely I will find a mostly satisfactory replacement for Emacs for the tasks listed above. (And I have been looking: I evaluated for example the most likely of the recent spate of vscode extensions for maintaining notes in markdown files.) (I don't like keyboard-only UIs; like 68.1% of the Emacs users who responded to a recent survey [1] I never use a terminal or terminal emulator to interact with my Emacs.) I guess I should explain why a terminal app such a Gnome Terminal would not be a mostly satisfactory replacement for Emacs for submitting command lines to Bash. Like at least one other participant [2] in this comment section, I appreciate being able to use the same set of operations on the output of the Bash process as I use on any other file being edited (without my first needing to copy the output from my terminal app, then paste it into my editor). I also appreciate the fact that the Emacs Lisp code that runs when I send a line of code to Bash is vastly easier to modify than Gnome Terminal would be. [1] https://emacssurvey.org/2020/ https://emacssurvey.org/2020/ [2] "I really like being able to move about the terminal field as if it were a text file" in https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jonnycomputer https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jonnycomputer