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Re: Emacs Fireplace

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Not without better concurrency support.

Your comment suggests that you are aware of this, but for those that don't know, elisp did gain something resembling concurrency support in 26.1: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Th...

Too bad porting[1] Emacs to Guile wasn't finished (even seems abandoned), could have improved speed and multithreading (and even better extensibility too).

[1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs

Re: Emacs Fireplace

#53
post #37
post #24

Can I get a quick vim vs emacs usage vote here? Not looking for a war. Just a usage vote. I will try and update results. Feel free to reply with your daily hours too Results below- small sample but makes me wonder about stack overflow survey about vim being thrice as used as emacs. I am a very loyal vim user but I would wager that those results were influenced by the occasional vim user. What are others thoughts on t…

Vim is a text editor, emacs is more like an IDE for your OS that works best when lived in. So they aren’t exactly directly comparable. But, +1 for emacs.

Indeed I use emacs for all "real" editing, but I use vim for composing emails - in my own console-based mail-client.

Re: Emacs Fireplace

#54
post #37

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Vim is a text editor, emacs is more like an IDE for your OS that works best when lived in. So they aren’t exactly directly comparable. But, +1 for emacs.

Indeed I use emacs for all "real" editing, but I use vim for composing emails - in my own console-based mail-client.

Does your DNS hosting solution allows for routing to least latency geographically closest host?

Re: Emacs Fireplace

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post #24

Can I get a quick vim vs emacs usage vote here? Not looking for a war. Just a usage vote. I will try and update results. Feel free to reply with your daily hours too Results below- small sample but makes me wonder about stack overflow survey about vim being thrice as used as emacs. I am a very loyal vim user but I would wager that those results were influenced by the occasional vim user. What are others thoughts on t…

Emacs

Re: Emacs Fireplace

#56
post #24

Can I get a quick vim vs emacs usage vote here? Not looking for a war. Just a usage vote. I will try and update results. Feel free to reply with your daily hours too Results below- small sample but makes me wonder about stack overflow survey about vim being thrice as used as emacs. I am a very loyal vim user but I would wager that those results were influenced by the occasional vim user. What are others thoughts on t…

Vi - always there

Re: Emacs Fireplace

#57
post #24

Can I get a quick vim vs emacs usage vote here? Not looking for a war. Just a usage vote. I will try and update results. Feel free to reply with your daily hours too Results below- small sample but makes me wonder about stack overflow survey about vim being thrice as used as emacs. I am a very loyal vim user but I would wager that those results were influenced by the occasional vim user. What are others thoughts on t…

Emacs

Re: Emacs Fireplace

#58
post #24

Can I get a quick vim vs emacs usage vote here? Not looking for a war. Just a usage vote. I will try and update results. Feel free to reply with your daily hours too Results below- small sample but makes me wonder about stack overflow survey about vim being thrice as used as emacs. I am a very loyal vim user but I would wager that those results were influenced by the occasional vim user. What are others thoughts on t…

Emacs

Re: Emacs Fireplace

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nano :P

Nano just exists to fool my fingers with its quarter implementation of Emacs bindings, and I end up deleting half of the file's contents.

>> I end up deleting half of the file's contents.

Are you sure you're not using vim?

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