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Re:Making Emacs Popular Again by williamdclt on Friday May 08, 2020 @09:22AM (#23114555)
Never used emacs, so can't compare. But:

> I think VSCode is a very mouse-centric experience

I never touch my mouse in VSCode. There's many many shortcuts that are configurable, and keyboard navigation isn't not a "second-class citizen"

> VSCode is slow compared

Yeah, probably true. Never felt like it slowed me down though

> And symbol fuzzy search is just for symbols, not all text

cmd-t on vscode. Probably not strictly equivalent to helm-swoop, but you could make your own extension in JS (which is a strong point for many people, I don't particularly want to learn a language that's specific to my editor).

Re:Making Emacs Popular Again by erikbye on Friday May 08, 2020 @09:27AM (#23114617)
> cmd-t on vscode.

Like I said earlier, that's just for symbols, so no, it's not the same.

Re:Making Emacs Popular Again by Dayshine on Saturday May 09, 2020 @05:59AM (#23123433)
So, I write a niche language server along with an adapter for VS Code. What are you frequently jumping to that isn't a symbol?

I can expose anything through the LSP api. Thinking about it, every single piece of text is covered by symbols and falling back to find all references.

The only thing that wouldn't work is trying to jump to syntax, but why would you do that?