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Emacs is an outstanding, extremely powerful piece of software. It just lacks a decent editor.

• michaelsbradley 5mo ago
  evil-mode
  • adxl 5mo ago
    Yuck!
  • adxl 5mo ago
    There’s a lot in a name.
    • iLemming 5mo ago
      Evil stands for Extensible VI Layer, it's not "literal Google".
• kqr 5mo ago
  I know this is the joke, and I know Evil is the jokey reply, but ... both sides of the joke carry a grain of truth, as good jokes do. I know a lot of people become comfortable with the default editing tools in Emacs, and many of them are good, but on the whole, vanilla Emacs does not ship with a great editor. The Vim family makes up amazingly well designed editors. Evil is a Vim implementation in Emacs. It is the best of both worlds, and not just on paper. It actually works.
• iLemming 5mo ago
  Not ever remotely true. Emacs has one of the best plain and structured text editing ever known to humans. Buffer abstraction alone is a godsend. Indirect buffer editing allows you to edit any piece independently - e.g. I can edit code comments treating them as completely different thing - with different highlighting, fonts, behaviors, etc. In what editor can you peak&edit folded text without unfolding it? Answer - only Emacs. Ask someone who needs to write texts in Arabic or Hebrew - Emacs has far, far better RTL support. Org-mode is just light-years ahead of anything else, nothing even comes close to it. So, your stupid joke (if you really believe it) is on you, truly.