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>All Emacs is good for is as a platform for building a completely different text editor out of extensions. Yes, we call those modes.
by llm_trw 3y ago
>All Emacs is good for is as a platform for building a completely different text editor out of extensions.
Yes, we call those modes.
- roenxi 3y agoThey can't make effective decisions about the modes without understanding base Emacs. And base Emacs is pretty awful. New users are better off using a text editor with sane defaults. Then they don't even need to build their own text editor. A lot of what makes Emacs good to use are modes that bring it up to parity with things like vim and Visual Studio.
- llm_trw 3y agoNo, a lot of what makes idiots quit emacs is trying to bring it up to parity with vim and Visual Studio. What makes emacs great are modes like tramp, dried, magit and org-mode which turn it into a portable operating system from the year 3000.