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Re:Vim Creep (2011) by billfruit on Saturday December 12, 2020 @10:03AM (#25398610)
But are those functionality available natively without plugins? All these are in the default emacs distribution possibly since more than 20 years, and are in a very usable, stable state of functionality.
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Re:Vim Creep (2011) by animal_spirits on Saturday December 12, 2020 @10:19AM (#25398721)
Aren't these technically plugins for emacs that are shipped with the editor? Org-mode is a plugin for emacs too right?
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Re:Vim Creep (2011) by jolux on Saturday December 12, 2020 @12:03PM (#25399646)
Sure but what’s the difference? That’s the beauty (and occasional curse) of Emacs. There’s no hard line between “native” code and plugins, outside of the Emacs Lisp interpreter.
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Re:Vim Creep (2011) by animal_spirits on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:46PM (#25426735)
Exactly. Its the basically same way with vim. Some plugins are distributed with the editor and some are not
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Re:Vim Creep (2011) by seszett on Saturday December 12, 2020 @10:12AM (#25398673)
Some of them do take plugins (the netrw plugin I think) but this plugin is included and active in a default install.
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