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It genuinely never ocurred to me that you use emacs somewhere outside the terminal.

• mjh2539 1y ago
  There are dozens of us running it outside of a terminal. Dozens!
• pjmlp 1y ago
  I have used it between 1995 and somewhere around 2006, always as graphical application, and for a while mostly XEmacs, which had much better graphical features. Using it on the terminal only over telnet when a remote X session wasn't possible.
• mimischi 1y ago
  Using it in GUI mode, you’ll end up using the terminal inside Emacs!
  • dietr1ch 1y ago
    And there's EXWM if you want to keep going. I guess people have also tried to set emacs as their init process.
    • setopt 1y ago
      Yup: https://github.com/a-schaefers/systemE https://github.com/a-schaefers/systemE
• anta40 1y ago
  Well there's the GUI version. vim also have it.
• NeutralForest 1y ago
  My main interaction is from the GUI where I just leave it open for days at a time. So this article stems from some of the frustrations I had using it in the terminal and not finding the same behavior I was used to.
• turboponyy 1y ago
  It's quite nice for the following reasons: - Image previews (for file management with dired/dirvish) - PDF viewing - In-buffer images (e.g. profile pictures in git log with Magit) - Browsing simple HTML pages (e.g. API docs) There's probably more I've yet to discover.
  • anthk 1y ago
    M-X calc and/or imaxima with embedded Gnuplot generated plots.
• iLemming 1y ago
  I genuinely never understood running Emacs in terminal, instead running terminal in GUI Emacs. That, until a day I joined a team where most development happens on remote EC2s, where people create joined tmux sessions. Besides, it turns out, setting up emacslient for quick editing, or even for bringing up Dired to use as a directory lookup and switcher is also very nice.