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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by coliveira on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:19AM (#14088692)
I remember a long time ago people discussing that Emacs would never be popular on PCs because nobody had 10MB sitting around just to use a text editor...
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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by alexeiz on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @12:44PM (#14089843)
Emacs is not just a text editor. It's an operating system.
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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by mi100hael on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @02:45PM (#14091131)
All it lacks is a good editor :P
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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by blaenk on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @08:09PM (#14093655)
Not since Evil, now it has the world's best editor (vim).
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