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Gah, yet another instance of people treating Emacs like it’s a terminal application. It can run in the terminal, if a terminal is all you have, but you don’t w
by teddyh 4y ago
Gah, yet another instance of people treating Emacs like it’s a terminal application. It can run in the terminal, if a terminal is all you have, but you don’t want to do that. Use its default, graphical mode:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/ https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/
You get not only graphics and colors, but also better keybindings which aren’t limited to 1970’s ASCII control codes.
- celeritascelery 4y agoReminds me of this article titled “don’t use terminal Emacs” https://blog.aaronbieber.com/2016/12/29/don-t-use-terminal-emacs.html https://blog.aaronbieber.com/2016/12/29/don-t-use-terminal-e...
- Narishma 4y agoThe first point in that link trying to show that it supports different languages has a screenshot with broken Arabic rendering...
- teddyh 4y agoI think that the image there is old; it looks different when I show that screen. Try it yourself by starting (a graphical) Emacs and selecting Options → Multilingual Environment → Show Multilingual Sample Text