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Re:Why Create a New Unix Shell? by lorenzhs on Thursday February 01, 2018 @09:05AM (#16281889)
My favourite Emacs goodie to highlight is magit because it really changed the way I use git. All of a sudden, it's incredibly simple to (un-)stage individual hunks, etc. And of course it works over TRAMP, too :)

org-mode is a good one, too, but I feel like I've barely scratched the surface there.

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Re:Why Create a New Unix Shell? by sedachv on Thursday February 01, 2018 @04:42PM (#16286202)
The hunk feature of magit is great; you can easily stage/unstage not only at the hunk granularity but also arbitrary lines using the selection. Being able to easily do that was something I really missed when I moved from darcs to git.

When it comes to magit and TRAMP, definitely the best part is with-editor[1]. This is one of those ingenious "why didn't I think of this?" hacks to let you use your local Emacs as EDITOR on remote machines without having to do SSH port forwarding for emacsclient.

[1] https://github.com/magit/with-editor

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