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Emacs is a full IDE, not just a quick one-off editor. Its power comes from having everything scriptable from the ground up. Contrast this with the modern Extens
by trelane 9mo ago
Emacs is a full IDE, not just a quick one-off editor. Its power comes from having everything scriptable from the ground up. Contrast this with the modern Extension concept, where there is a hard line between the editor's code and any changes you might want to make to its behavior.
I think vim is probably similar, but I've not gotten into it that much.
- bilekas 9mo agoExactly, and infact vim is very simular, neovim in my case extensible through lua scripts as an example. It's as light or feature packed as I like. Contrast that to Eclipse and Visual Studio (not vsCode) and it's clear why the larger IDE's are falling out of favour.