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> While both of these [Emacs and vim] can probably compete with Pulsar in number of extensions available and the amount of customizations and keyboard shortcuts
by antiframe 3y ago
> While both of these [Emacs and vim] can probably compete with Pulsar in number of extensions available and the amount of customizations and keyboard shortcuts, neither of them have a graphical user interface, and they are completely incapable of doing things like showing images or, for example, a Markdown preview (which by the way you can open in Pulsar by pressing Ctrl+Shift+M).
Claiming that Emacs has limited customization, no GUi, and can't display images tells me they've not used Emacs and probably shouldn't be making any claims without fact checking them. Really colors how I read the rest of their pitch.
- quasarj 3y agoThank you. I just got around to reading the article and was horrified to find him disparaging vim, and emacs, while being completely wrong about both. Very soured.
- GalaxyNova 3y agoAlso nowadays there's a few GUI frontends for Neovim such as Neovide.
- antiframe 3y agoSee, I didn't know that. But, I wouldn't go around claiming it either. Especially if I was making that claim to disparage a competor to my product.
- linuxftw 3y agoEh, not really. Last I tried these, the mouse was able to move the cursor, and that was about it.
- 000ooo000 3y agoNeovim in the terminal has a basic right click menu (select, copy, paste), scrolling, and buffer select. That's just what I've come across.
- linuxftw 3y agoIIRC, the 'clipboard' for the terminal was separate from the rest of your desktop. You couldn't copy from your web browser to your neovim the same way you would with a GUI text editor.
- 000ooo000 3y agoYeah Vim uses registers which are like multiple clipboards. By default, yank/copy and paste don't use the register linked to the system clipboard, but this is just a setting. https://neovim.io/doc/user/provider.html#provider-clipboard https://neovim.io/doc/user/provider.html#provider-clipboard