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Re:The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy by neolog on Friday August 06, 2021 @08:03PM (#28094264)
I agree with what you say about IDEs, but Emacs' "advantage" over other text editors is that it is only superficially a text editor. It's really more of an operating system.
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Re:The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy by CRConrad on Saturday August 07, 2021 @07:58AM (#28097905)
How does the old joke go -- "Now if Emacs only had a decent text editor, it would be a pretty decent OS."
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Re:The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy by mike97 on Saturday August 07, 2021 @09:21AM (#28098400)
Evil mode
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