> 3) As someone who's used emacs for a long time, I would hate to have my emacs shortcuts replaced by standard ones. I don't want to remap my brain.

As someone who's used Mac for a long time (and now Linux desktop, with similar shortcuts, plus spending most of my time in a browser like Chromium or Firefox), I chose other editors like Sublime and now VS Code partly because they use shortcuts that feel normal on those platforms so I didn't have to remap my brain. (More like my thumbs I think.) So to me the shortcuts changes in this project may be the most interesting part!

Don't talk about politics, religion or text editors at work, son.

They used to ban people for starting rWars on USENET (that is, outside of the forums specifically for rWars) back in the day.

I'm not sure anyone is actually fighting. We both like what we're used to, and neither of us is claiming it's better. We're both just agreeing we don't want to change.

People are allowed to like different things (except vi, obviously -- I hope we can all agree to that).

As a footnote: I'm comfortable with mainstream keyboard shortcuts too, but not in emacs. Those things do specific things in emacs, and would be a mess. If you remap ctrl-k, I won't have a way to cut a line anymore! I need that.

Hear, hear. Celebrate diversity!

FWIW, VS Code uses Ctrl+Shift+K by default for Delete Line. I'm used to it enough that I sometimes try it in other apps, like Chromium text boxes …

“Better way to manage multiple files”? I just asked Emacs and I have over 700 files open. Not sure what is inconvenient about editing multiple files.

And in case someone reading is wondering, "how do I count the number of buffers":

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/350526/how-do-i-count-th...

I recommend using the desktop feature also mentioned there.

Now, if I can only get emacs daemon mode to maintain state so if I abruptly disconnect and reconnect with emacsclient over X11 I get the state restored exactly where I left off, so that even the screen is painted exactly where I left off, down to the cursor position. Running something like VNC is a non-starter on my locked-down WinPC, unfortunately.

Just do c-x c-b to get the list of buffers and c-x l to count the lines. Like everything in emacs it’s an editable buffer which is quite handy.

Ah, but this will be incorrect if you have multiple buffers pointing to the same file.

When you have hundreds of buffers it doesn’t really matter.

Hi - Mousemacs author here.

There is a way to pick and choose :)

The context menu in Mousemacs is a couple of dozen lines of Elisp and would be simple to rewrite. You can simply create your own context menus.

Looking through the repo, it's a handful of elisp files, so you can pick-and-choose by deleting the stuff you don't want.