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Re:Making Emacs Popular Again (2020) by d0mine on Thursday November 04, 2021 @09:53AM (#29107178)
To understand why emacs is great, think of it not as an editor but as a platform. Killer apps for me are:

- magit :: everyday things are just a key away, less common things are visible, complex things are possible

- Org-mode :: whole life in plain text (for some brain types it enables almost impossible to achieve otherwise + Org-Babel + emacs-jupyter

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Re:Making Emacs Popular Again (2020) by pfortuny on Thursday November 04, 2021 @12:28PM (#29109183)
mu4e has simplified my life enormously.

I can do things no other would let me do easily. Namely: create automatic exams with latex, each for a different address and send each to its corresponding pupil, all in a single script.

Attaching is a breeze, by the way.

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