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Re:Leo Editor by TeMPOraL on Monday September 27, 2021 @04:57AM (#28668532)
Emacs pull all that off and then some, but people trying to copy it's success sometimes miss that this versatility depends on two factors:

1. Emacs being an incredibly flexible computing substrate, a well-documented platform for software working with 2D text data as its core abstraction - on top of which all those use cases are supported, through both first-party code and third-party packages.

2. Emacs user base being self-selected to contain people willing to tolerate less than perfectly polished UI, various UX quirks, and who understand this is a hacker's tool, that can and should be modified until it fits the user like a glove.

In other words: this success story takes both more work than it seems, and a specific attitude of the users.

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Re:Leo Editor by maydup-nem on Monday September 27, 2021 @06:25AM (#28669041)
> should be modified until it fits the user like a glove

more like a gauntlet

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Re:Leo Editor by dotancohen on Monday September 27, 2021 @06:34AM (#28669085)
As an Evil user touching Emacs only for org-mode, this sums it up perfectly.

Emacs-Evil-OrgMode is heavy, uncomfortable, and downright tiresome. But it is powerful, like an iron fist, and for some jobs a powerful iron fist really is the right tool.

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