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Re:Making Emacs Popular Again by raverbashing on Friday May 08, 2020 @05:36AM (#23112950)
> I have no idea why you would be running Emacs in a terminal in the first place.

I don't see an advantage of using it outside of the terminal in the first place to be honest.

That's the good part about vim. Or if it's complicated for you, use nano. Done. Editing of files while you're in the terminal.

And yes vimscript is annoying, but it seems to be simple enough for most of the basic stuff.

Otherwise there are plenty of GUI editors that work fine.

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Re:Making Emacs Popular Again by michaelmrose on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:56PM (#23118156)
https://blog.aaronbieber.com/2016/12/29/don-t-use-terminal-e...

Accepting the terminal version is accepting an inferior environment with no upside.

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Re:Making Emacs Popular Again by raverbashing on Saturday May 09, 2020 @01:49AM (#23122612)
Interesting to know. Though calling the terminal only version an "inferior version" to me sounds like they are aware of its caveats.

TRAMP sounds nice but a lot of times I can't have emacs on the other side. And vim with screen/tmux works fine

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