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I don't want to sound rude but I've never seen a well executed car analogy, especially when they use F1 racecars. Your analogy doesn't make the position of Emac

• CRConrad 5y ago
  > I've never seen a well executed car analogy, especially when they use F1 racecars. An F1-analogue editor would be incredibly fragile, narrowly focused, and demand a huge amount of maintenance. For the last, both this HN discussion and IIRC TFA offer widely varying estimates as to how much people need to tinker with their configuration files. For the others, only being able to run on one kind of track (absolutely flat ones) would be for an editor to only work for one programming language; spinning and flying into bits at the slightest touch would be for the editor to crash as soon as you type in bad syntax or misspell a variable name; and needing the engine rebuilt after each race and replaced every third or fourth would be... I'm not sure, needing to update to a new version of your editor every three or four weeks? If Emacs is like any sort of car, it's certainly not an F1 one.