Earlier quoted context omitted.
Vim and Emacs are not in the same category. Direct comparisons are silly and useless, like comparing Pycharm and Notepad++.
Nothing’s in the same category when you look deep enough into them.
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Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
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Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Vim and Emacs are not in the same category. Direct comparisons are silly and useless, like comparing Pycharm and Notepad++.
Nothing’s in the same category when you look deep enough into them.
This says nothing about the matter at hand. The concept of category is useful, regardless of its impreciseness.
And some categorizations are better than others.
> Nothing’s in the same category when you look deep enough into them.
That’s also patently false: many things belong to the same category. Everything that exists belongs to the existent category, for example.
Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
#63I wonder what the venn diagram looks like of those who enjoy the readability of this blog and use emacs
If you use eww in Emacs, the readability of that post would be exactly as you wanted it to be, given that you've spent enough time configuring and tweaking your Emacs theme. Emacs (in general) is not for everyone - but it can be that perfect tool, that is truly perfect just for you.
Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Worth underscoring that you are always missing something. You don't dodge that bullet by using emacs, just pick what you want to miss.
For example, if you do choose to use emacs, then you are missing out on time you could have spent learning vim.
Evil mode on emacs, that was easy ;)
Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
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Justify in terms of what, exactly? At current disk prices, 114 megabytes costs less than a third of a US penny. Even at minimum wage, you'd make that in under a second.
surely someone of your pedigree can understand, not everything is about money. Why should I use something 6 times larger? Without a benefit thats just software bloat from where I sit. and GNU is known for this, from glibc on up.
I think the key question is, what is it about?
Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Justify in terms of what, exactly? At current disk prices, 114 megabytes costs less than a third of a US penny. Even at minimum wage, you'd make that in under a second.
surely someone of your pedigree can understand, not everything is about money. Why should I use something 6 times larger? Without a benefit thats just software bloat from where I sit. and GNU is known for this, from glibc on up.
Recently went through some GNU and BSD source code and the difference in file size was quite dramatic. GNU's really doing its own thing :)
Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
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> so emacs is doomed to being a mediocre niche text editor with unrealized potential to become a household name Emacs is absolutely a household name, at least in the world of text editors…
I'd venture that it's not among rank-and-file software developers, though.
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...
4.5%. So not many but it's certainly "among."
Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
#68Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
#69I wonder what the venn diagram looks like of those who enjoy the readability of this blog and use emacs
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Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
#70I don't use emacs. I use text files to organise myself but I use notepad++ to edit them. I have tried to learn emacs a couple of times but I am really unmotivated - don't see any case where it would help me. I am afraid I'm missing something.
Emacs is an enormous investment but every time I'm forced to use another editor or IDE I'm reminded how much it pays off. Fundamentally, all Emacs does is treat the whole world as text. Everything from that point forward is about giving you (or allowing you to build) tools to manipulate text in a way that is natural and powerful for you. This doesn't sound particularly earth-shaking, but it really is. Think of a lang…
emacs used to treat the whole world as text. now it treats .jpg files as images, and based on the extension, not the magic numbers. it's mildly infuriating.