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> Is the AI notable? Working with LLMs in Emacs is pure joy. LLMs are all about text and Emacs is the absolute king here. Nothing, even remotely comes close. E
by iLemming 2mo ago
> Is the AI notable?
Working with LLMs in Emacs is pure joy. LLMs are all about text and Emacs is the absolute king here. Nothing, even remotely comes close. Emacs is not a text editor - it's a text orchestrator, you can control any text-relevant aspect in its computational vicinity - anything you see on your screen, local and remote computers.
Anything else might feel great for coding, but what do you when you need etymology or definition lookup, thesaurus exploration or translation in the middle of typing a comment? Well, you might say: "I'd bring the browser", but that's the equivalent of keeping your cup in the kitchen and whenever you need a sip of coffee, having to walk over there and back to your home office.
I can start conversing with a model virtually anytime, anywhere in Emacs. I can ask it to find me a command while I'm browsing the M-x menu, can you do that in Zed's command palette?
I can send a query asking for... I dunno, to fact check a sentence in the middle of typing it. While working with a model in ECA (Editor Coding Assistant) on some codebase, I can ask gptel (unrelated package) to correct my own prompt, using a different model, with dissimilar parameters. Or ask it to find me a way to summarize my current investigation, or combine multiple chats into a single pdf document, etc. The only limitation is your own imagination.