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Why GNU Emacs?

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Re: Why GNU Emacs?

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Post by treve »

officialchicken wrote: post #3

Different people like different things, OK? A 40 year old flamewar is boring and old. Just let it die. [1] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/986/what-are-the-pro...

Can someone not write an article about a technology they love? There was no flaming in there.

Re: Why GNU Emacs?

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Post by to3m »

officialchicken wrote: post #3

Different people like different things, OK? A 40 year old flamewar is boring and old. Just let it die. [1] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/986/what-are-the-pro...

I think this is a misreading of the article!

Re: Why GNU Emacs?

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Post by eru »

calibraxis wrote: post #2

"Doing just one thing and doing it well" -- which is better at this, Unix programs or Emacs functions?

At least Unix programs don't suffer from dynamic scope. (Unless you use bash to glue them, of course.)

Re: Why GNU Emacs?

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Post by rekado »

to3m wrote: post #5
officialchicken wrote: post #3

Different people like different things, OK? A 40 year old flamewar is boring and old. Just let it die. [1] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/986/what-are-the-pro...

I think this is a misreading of the article!

Indeed! I was actually raised by a pack of vims, and I like both editors. I used to use evil-mode in Emacs for a while until I reset my muscle memory by switching to dvorak.

I have no interest in old flame wars. Our generation has its own set of flame wars to fight ;)

Re: Why GNU Emacs?

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Post by bjackman »

I enjoyed this; I moved from Vim to Emacs a couple of years ago and indeed the most important thing to recognise is this:

Emacs does have a great text editor, and it's Vim!

With evil-mode you can use all the Vim bindings you're used to (including sed commands with ':'), but with the added benefits (and drawbacks) of Emacs!

I've also found that fiddling with my .emacs is really fun, fiddling with .vimrc was usually quite frustrating.

Re: Why GNU Emacs?

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Post by pklausler »

Emacs is a fine editor to use until you write your own. It's the only way to make your primary interactive tool work exactly the way that you think it should.
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