Well...I mean yeah, sure. Why not?
Hey, let's throw systemd in there while we're at it.
Anything to procrastinate on adding a good editor to it, right?
Hey, let's throw systemd in there while we're at it.
Anything to procrastinate on adding a good editor to it, right?
(But to be fair even a minimal Emacs is about 20MB RSS these days).
Back then mine was the "scary" machine in the workshop with its AMD Duron 700 and a whopping 512MB of RAM... and Emacs was just about usable on it!
From the documentation. I don't know why they didn't make it the same, but this is how it is, though maybe because M-butterfly is rather hard to press.
He knew what he was doing.
No, there aren't.
Have you tried literally every other text editor?
I switched from Vim. In Emacs, I can inline previews of LaTeX formulas in the same buffer as the one that I am editing. This is possible because Emacs has a GUI. Vim cannot do this because it runs in the terminal, and it also doesn’t seem possible to do this in gVim.
Meanwhile Emacs implements Vim’s modal editing through evil mode. So for this use case, Emacs seems to be strictly better than Vim.
I used Vim for 5 years, tried various different editors (Atom, Geany, Kate,...), and now for the past 4 years I've been using Emacs. And I'm liking it a lot more than Vim (though that may have something to do with my switching from typing QWERTY to Dvorak).
Modal editing has ergonomic benefits similar to Sticky Keys, I don't see anything dated about it.
I'm not sure I agree writing is done the most either. Moving around is probably pretty high up there. It does depend on the file of course, but for config files or [video] playlist files you probably do more small edits and movements than writing of pure text. Writing email would be the other extreme.
Hum... As an emacs user, I'm quite comfortable to disagree here.
When in an editor, you want to both type text and run code. Vi only messes up on the emphasis for both cases (due to the legacy of descending from ed), but even emacs has a "run code" mode.
I use swayWM and Emacs (with frames instead of windows) and configured sway to have Emacs-style key bindings. So I mimicked EXWM behavior without knowing about EXWM.