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Emacs is great out-of-the-box. Really its only problem is the annoying bugs you frequently run into. (Emacs Lisp really isn't meant for programming large, stab

• Bost 5y ago
  > Emacs is great out-of-the-box. Sure. And because the out-of-the-box is so great: 1. people actually create emacs distributions(!) like spacemacs, doom-emacs, etc. 2. the emacs wiki has https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DotEmacsBankruptcy https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DotEmacsBankruptcy
  • otabdeveloper4 5y ago
    If Emacs is an OS, then of course there should be different distributions of it. That's like complaining that Windows is broken because it doesn't come with MS Office out of the box.
    • pjmlp 5y ago
      Except Emacs is just a subset of the whole experience. https://hanshuebner.github.io/lmman/frontpage.html https://hanshuebner.github.io/lmman/frontpage.html
  • cge 5y ago
    Emacs is so great out-of-the-box that, unless you're in a terminal, every time you launch it to edit a file, it will take up half its window with a welcome message, until you specifically create a configuration file to disable that. This is particularly frustrating if you just want to use it with its default settings, eg, as root to edit a file. It's clearly not intended to be reasonable usable without user configuration.
• bachmeier 5y ago
  > Emacs is great out-of-the-box. "Slackware is friendly. It's just really picky about who its friends are." I mean, I'm sure there are like seven, maybe eight, people in the world that think Emacs is great out of the box. Where we run into trouble is that most of those seven or eight people are the ones deciding what Emacs is like out of the box.