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Re:Cool desktops don’t change by deepnet on Thursday June 16, 2022 @11:36PM (#31773852)
My life and work would be impoverished without emacs.

Thank you Richard

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Re:Cool desktops don’t change by bbarnett on Friday June 17, 2022 @02:34AM (#31774774)
I personally dislike emacs, but say the same.

Why?

vim would not be what it is, without emacs to rage against.

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Re:Cool desktops don’t change by glumpsoff on Friday June 17, 2022 @04:06AM (#31775395)
vim would not be what it is without having become a shallow emacs.

Emacs is emacs because its extensible, between vim, neovim and vim9, im starting to think people might enjoy the extensibility seeing as that brings vim up to 3 scripting languages to write things in.

vim has become what it purported to hate

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Re:Cool desktops don’t change by bb010g on Friday June 17, 2022 @04:03PM (#31783525)
I don't think Vim ever hated extensibility. Vim is defined by its modality and vocabulary and grammar, which Emacs lacks without extensions like evil.
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