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How to show what separates emacs from other IDEs (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by Both_Confidence_4147@alien.top to c/emacs
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I talked to someone about the extensibility of emacs, but the person I was speaking to assumed that any IDE is just as extensible by using Plug Ins.

Without turning the conversation into a university style lecture, what is one or two simple actions I can do in emacs to show someone what separates it from other IDES.

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[–] a-concerned-mother@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Probably the most simple examples for me are

  1. Showing the multitude of packages for something like an email client, Margit, etc and how you can mix them together with org linking, using babel, etc. showing the deep level of integration you get

  2. Simply show functionality in the editor and how you would like it to change. Rather that writing a whole package to do it. Use the help to go to the source and redefine that function in your config. Doesn't require them to know elisp to understand but it gets the point across that everything is at your fingertips.