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The insanity of trying to shoehorn everything into emacs, even calling it an OS, is purely beyond.
by paulyy_y 1y ago
The insanity of trying to shoehorn everything into emacs, even calling it an OS, is purely beyond.
- snapdaddy 1y agoHow many editors can you think of that don't do any (strictly) unnecessary file operations, e.g. renaming files? The author's problem is that Emacs is just really good at it, so he wants to use it more.
- bigdict 1y agoOnce you realize that elisp is a better shell programming language than bash, it ceases to appear insane.
- hollerith 1y agoI much prefer them to the people that try to shoehorn everything user-facing into the browser.
- internet_points 1y agos/browser/llm
- tadfisher 1y agoEmacs is a shell, not an OS. It's an extremely customizable and programmable shell that works with many third-party utilities, but it's still a shell.
- rbc 1y agoI'd call it more than a shell. It's more like a text oriented Lisp (Emacs Lisp to be specific) runtime environment with built in editing, interpretation, compilation, and debugging tools. It's also been a popular home for numerous applications that have found lives of their own, far beyond editing text.
- hollerith 1y agoI like to call it a generalized interface to information. The web of the early 1990s could be called the same thing, but not the modern web, which is more like a "generalized experience-delivery platform with an old much-simpler generalized interface to information at its core".
- TacticalCoder 1y agoAn OS may be too much but, as a proof of concept, there are people who have been running Emacs as PID 1. And I don't mean in an OCI container (we're used to have only one process there): I mean on the bare metal, with Emacs being PID 1. A bit radical but it's been done.
- timewizard 1y agoIt gives me fewer reasons to leave Emacs. Which increases my productivity. There's very little 'mental context switch' delay since it's all the same tool with the same interface.