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> 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,
by 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 agoIf 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 agoExcept 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 agoEmacs 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.