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