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Re:Tabs, spaces and your salary – how is it really? by teddyh on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @05:33PM (#14598816)
> I don't think I've ever seen someone describe a feature that vi/vim/emacs has that an IDE doesn't

Emacs can seamlessly access files over ssh, ftp and/or sudo.

Emacs lets me add custom hook commands to run before a file is saved (to check a file’s syntax using an external command), and after it’s saved (to signal reloading of the file to the relevant process).

Emacs also includes my mail reader, my diary, my organizer, a spreadsheet, an stack-based algebraic calculator, etc. but those may be unfair comparisons. :)

Note: All of the above are part of the built-in functionality of Emacs. Third-party extensions can of course do anything.

Re:Tabs, spaces and your salary – how is it really? by abritinthebay on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @01:56AM (#14601089)
There's an argument that Emacs is a collection of extensions to lisp that happens to include a text editor