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When it comes to only writing code and executing it, then Emacs is not the best editor. I used Lapce for Rust, and it is fast, lightweight and modern. Lapce als
by emporas 3y ago
When it comes to only writing code and executing it, then Emacs is not the best editor. I used Lapce for Rust, and it is fast, lightweight and modern. Lapce also has some keyboard shortcuts and it is a joy to use. Emacs has some features relevant to editor appearance and tiling, but not that big of a deal compared to other editors.
When it comes however to keyboard focused, unmoused control of a cumputer, then Emacs is the only option, there is no other option. Text is of course very central to Emacs, but images or anything else can be embedded and processed inside Emacs.
Emacs lacked till now the killer app, and i think that app is LLMs. Emacs has already 5 different packages for interfacing with LLM's. Personally, i just cannot imagine using LLM's without Emacs.
One example i could give, by using the GhostText extension, one can write in a textarea in a browser inside of emacs. Poe.com for example has a textarea the size of which, is not adjustable like HN comment-textarea, and writing anything more than 3 lines is confusing. Big deal, write inside the textarea using emacs, much faster and accurate.
If someone knows, what's the big deal with pair programming that Emacs cannot replicate? Is is a good implementation of CRDT's?
- emporas 3y agoA typo, and no edit button after some period of time. Darn.