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Emacs is just there in their environment. They didn't set anything up. > Even discovering tramp is not trivial or automatic and for working on a remote machine
by BeetleB 2mo ago
Emacs is just there in their environment. They didn't set anything up.
> Even discovering tramp is not trivial or automatic and for working on a remote machine, isn't Vim much more common?
Full confession: I, as a power Emacs user don't use tramp. It's ok not to.
I know people disagree with me, but for the most basic editing Emacs has virtually no learning curve compared to Vim. You just open the file and start typing like you would any other editor.
- wild_egg 2mo agoWhat kind of environments are these? I can't say I have ever encountered emacs in the wild. The only people I have ever met who run emacs did it as an explicit decision because they wanted the malleability. Even having emacs just there in their environment, most people would avoid it because they don't know what it is, and will open Notepad or TextEdit or whatever familiar program is at hand.
- BeetleB 2mo agoA lot of engineering companies have Linux accounts you log in to. The employees' laptops are Windows but a good amount of engineering work is in Linux. Hence they SSH in and do their work. These accounts are managed by IT. They pre install all these tools.