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Why emacs (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by PrezirePlayz@alien.top to c/emacs
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Why not just use vscode if you want a more featured experience, and vim/neovim if you want a minimalistic experience?

(not including the fact that Microsoft owns vscode and that some parts are not open source, im aware of that, so no need to mention it)

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[–] rwilcox@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I’m interested in editor longevity. I’ve been using BBEdit on the Mac for most of 15 years - started in the mid 1990s - , but when I made a move cross platform that didn’t work anymore. Really don’t want to switch editors every 5-10 years as editors become popular, then reach past their peak and are abandoned as the previous hot thing.

Oh, and I can use Emacs on my Mac desktop, my Linux laptop, Windows laptops AND (thanks to running it inside a iSh) my iOS devices! Cross platform!

On other notes, I needed something with easier customization than VSC AND wanted my command line experience to be the same across Windows and Linux. Hello eshell, the jokes about Emacs being an OS are right! I also like playing with things in different ways: I want a command line shell that’s not coupled to POSIX, and I can build it in Emacs. A menu bar that is mine and I can add to. I do appreciate M-x and I know VSC has its command palette which I used quite a bit when I was into that editor for a while.