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Question: I'm an Emacs user, and haven't checked out ST or ST2. Is it comparable in terms of flexibility++?
by davidwparker 14y ago
Question: I'm an Emacs user, and haven't checked out ST or ST2. Is it comparable in terms of flexibility++?
- kabdib 14y agoI tried it out, and didn't see anything really compelling. ST seemed to be going in the right direction, but it was nowhere near as complete as even an uncustomized workaday Emacs clone. [speaking with 30+ years of Emacs, and as a user of many, many other editors in environments that didn't support Emacs: ST seemed to be like using VMS's EDT -- a fairly capable editor, but not one I'd bring home to Mom]
- Derbasti 14y agoIt is great! It really is! Give it a shot just to see what we Emacsens are missing. But if you're like me... Well, Emacs is a way of life and it does a whole lot more than just editing text. I would love to have smooth scrolling and multiple cursors and slick animations and a cursor that can be off-screen. But at the end of the day, I prefer magit and org-mode and keyboard-only navigation and macros and so on. It still is awesome though. Do give it a try! Maybe in a few decades it will have accumulated enough awesomeness to compare to our beloved Emacs.
- kindahero 14y agoI dont know about multiple cursors., but I use scrolling all the time (global-set-key "\M-n" "\C-u1\C-v") (global-set-key "\M-p" "\C-u1\M-v")
- banjomonster 14y agoHa - been looking for an easy way to do this for a bit. Thanks!
- dnlbyl 14y agoNo, you can't play Tetris in it.