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Re:Toward a “modern” Emacs by shreve on Friday September 25, 2020 @08:25PM (#24595395)
Don't forget syntax highlighting shortcomings. Sublime, VS Code, Syntect, Pygments, and other highlighting engines all get most languages right. Emacs and vim both do weak and incomplete jobs identifying tokens. It makes nice color schemes look bland because they skew toward only a few colors. At least neovim is working on treesitting which should improve this ability.
Re:Toward a “modern” Emacs by panzerklein on Saturday September 26, 2020 @03:33AM (#24597063)
Right, I've noticed this while trying to update my vimrc for web development. Syntax highlighting is just not as nice as in vscode.