I have a lot of respect for emacs, but my favorite editor takes what somebody in this conversation called an “exterior” approach instead. This is kakoune, and i

I have a lot of respect for emacs, but my favorite editor takes what somebody in this conversation called an “exterior” approach instead. This is kakoune, and it gets a lot more attention for its editing model (which is quite good) than for its approach to dealing with the outside world. But the latter deserves some attention, because you extend kak by calling other programs for everything, and kak makes it very easy to do. For instance, I have a key bind that invokes the date command to insert a timestamp at the cursor. I’m sure there’s a very reasonable bit of elisp that produces the same result, and it probably looks a lot more like strftime. I think this makes for an instructive contrast; I’ve never seen another editor take integration with external processes quite so far.