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While I agree with this technically and I have used vi(m) for years, there is something experientially quite different about being able to use a local gui with
by uberman 4y ago
While I agree with this technically and I have used vi(m) for years, there is something experientially quite different about being able to use a local gui with all the mouse support and ease of use of VSCode or Sublime compared to the chording of more traditional terminal editors.
I'm not knocking Emacs or Vim, they are powerful tools but to be able to show a typical first year student how to edit their code remotely using SSH/Container support in VSCode is comparatively dead simple. All the students I work with now use this strategy, much in the same way they prefer to use jupyter and pandas when they can.
- ginko 4y agoEmacs had a GUI mode with mouse support since the 80s.
- Vanit 4y agoYes. Now are you going to respond to the parent's actual content? Seamless remote editing with Emacs GUI is not a thing.
- unmole 4y ago> Seamless remote editing with Emacs GUI is not a thing. TRAMP has been a thing for a very long time: https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/ https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/
- ginko 4y agoGrandparent already mentioned that remote editing has been an Emacs feature for a long long time so I thought that was already debunked.
- tincholio 4y agohttps://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode