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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by GordonS on Sunday January 17, 2021 @04:59PM (#25815501)
VSCode has an extension for that too, edamagit[0] :)

One of the big appeals of VSCode for me is the huge community around it, and the range of plugins available.

[0] https://github.com/kahole/edamagit

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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by cle on Monday January 18, 2021 @03:31PM (#25826265)
I get that. For me VSCode is pretty clunky in terms of replacing what I like about Emacs. Writing a plugin is way more of an exercise than writing a couple lines of elisp to change something or add some new functionality, things are not self-documenting, it's not nearly as easy to open a REPL and start poking around programmatically at open files, etc. These are the things that I value with Emacs and that make me more productive.
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