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Emacs had a GUI mode with mouse support since the 80s.
Yes. Now are you going to respond to the parent's actual content? Seamless remote editing with Emacs GUI is not a thing.
Ask HN: Is Satya Nadella the best tech CEO of last decade?
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WSL is amazing. I switched from Macs to thinkpads at my office and having the bells and whistles of windows MS office (lets admin macos office stinks) and vscode that opens and literally runs on Linux is amazing. No IT hassles about developers running Linux with support and VPNs and stuff. Just buy some more RAM and ship developers windows laptops has been great for the org and honestly the developers. We deploy and…
Apparently the Year of Linux on the Desktop has happened without anybody noticing or giving a point.
Exactly. The best Linux Desktop distro is Windows.
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#104Tech Bullmarket masks failures of all tech CEOs.
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Best yet is VSCode into a docker container on a remote host. Feels like magic!
Emacs has been able to edit files transparently on remote hosts for longer than vscode has existed
and FreeBSD Jails were a thing 15 years before Docker came and made things affordable for the masses.
and Olympic champion can jump for 5 meters, but bridges over creeks is nothing uncommon for masses.
and Emacs has been able to edit files transparently on remote hosts ...
Probably Emacs can learn [if they care to be dominating on the market] on technical possibility vs being simple and handy.
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And if we take VSCode Tunnel, things become even brighter for VScode for remote editing.
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Best yet is VSCode into a docker container on a remote host. Feels like magic!
Emacs has been able to edit files transparently on remote hosts for longer than vscode has existed
Well then, it must be really bad if with all those features and many years it did not manage to gain so many users.
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#107Didn’t he oversee turning windows into spyware? In my mind, he’s the worst ceo of the last decade
Turning Windows into spyware is working out very financially for MS, so doing so makes him an excellent CEO. Your personal feelings about the company's products are irrelevant; only their financial performance is important.
If you don't like the product, you're free to not buy it, and use something else. There are many alternatives.
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#109> the majority dev environment in its chokehold Is that so?
The 2022 Stack Overflow survey has it at 75% market share.
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#most-popular-technolog...
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Emacs has been able to edit files transparently on remote hosts for longer than vscode has existed
and FreeBSD Jails were a thing 15 years before Docker came and made things affordable for the masses. and Olympic champion can jump for 5 meters, but bridges over creeks is nothing uncommon for masses. and Emacs has been able to edit files transparently on remote hosts ... Probably Emacs can learn [if they care to be dominating on the market] on technical possibility vs being simple and handy. ===== And if we take VS…
Remote editing on Emacs isn't a mere "technical possiblity." It's available out of the box, is no harder than working with local files, and crucially, doesn't require you to install anything on the remote host unlike VSCode.
Furthermore, Emacs still has the best tooling for remote development. They're worth using even if you use other software for text editing, like I do. Dired, the file viewer, makes working with both local and remote files easy and seamless. Org mode, which can be used like Jupyter notebooks, can run code blocks remotely using any language, and can even pass data between them.
It's nice if software professionals were more open towards software that they're unfamiliar with. Software can be useful even if it takes some effort to learn. Not every feature of some software is worthless just because it isn't a clone of a more popular alternative.