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The diversity in the emacs ecosystem has a hand in this I think. There are so many different ways to switch buffers: vanilla, Ido, Helm, Ivy, and all of the oth
by skulk 5y ago
The diversity in the emacs ecosystem has a hand in this I think. There are so many different ways to switch buffers: vanilla, Ido, Helm, Ivy, and all of the other ones I haven't heard about. This kind of diversity is unseen in other consolidated, centrally managed software ecosystems.
- kristjansson 5y agoAnd those aren't just ways to switch buffers - they're options on a 'select among choices' dimension that's totally orthogonal to 'things that generate choices to select'. List of buffers, list of commands, list of files in a project ... can be presented, narrowed, and selected in an interface chosen by the user