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> For command-line editors, you could consider Neovim or Emacs. A friendly reminder that Emacs is not a "command-line editor".
by daptaq 4y ago
> For command-line editors, you could consider Neovim or Emacs.
A friendly reminder that Emacs is not a "command-line editor".
- zoltar 4y agoOf course it is. It's not just that, though.
- daptaq 4y agoEmacs is a visual editor (which also applies to Neovim, btw). Ed is a command line editor. But even if we assume that "command line" means "terminal", then it would still be wrong to describe it as a "command line editor", in the same sense at is wrong to describe a computer as a facebook client.
- zoltar 4y agoYou are confusing line editor with command-line editors. If you interpret command-line editor as editing the command line, emacs has eshell. If you interpret it as an editor from a terminal, it's that, too. If you mean "line editor", emacs has batch mode.
- daptaq 4y agoAren't all "line editors" also "command line editors"? Either way, that is not my point. I just wanted to point out that Emacs shoudln't be boxed into the same category as Vim, because while Vim ist most commonly used in a terminal, Emacs isn't.
- arutar 4y agoThat's a fair point, more precise phrasing would be "If you prefer a command-line interface, ..." which should be sufficiently vague to make almost everybody happy.
- daptaq 4y agoI'd still object, Emacs has nothing to do with command-line interfaces.