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people think emacs users use emacs for it's sheer power but i think that is the wrong perception to have (and promote). the sheer power is in it's key bindings
by jaequery 15y ago
people think emacs users use emacs for it's sheer power but i think that is the wrong perception to have (and promote).
the sheer power is in it's key bindings. it lets you literally take full control of texts with pin-point precisions just like a surgeon does with his tools. the speed and efficiency of it is just un-matched by any text editors out there. i've seen some power vi/vim users get close to speed but still can not rival against a power emacs users. long live emacs.
- rbanffy 15y agoI like being able to easily write my own functionality. It would take weeks to do on Eclipse what I can do in a leisurely afternoon on Emacs. Archaic a dialect of Lisp as it is, Emacs Lisp makes Java look like something out of the 50's.