Eh.. Which every other editor would that be?
There is a mode [0] you can enable just because of how different it is to every other popular editor ever. Still.
Imagine spending 8 hours a day for the rest of your life and you still want a cursor based popup telling you what you might or might not want to do instead of having muscle memory of what you do.
Yeah the free software stuff didn’t work but that’s not all the editor wars were about.
I think we’re just missing each other here. The best features of eMacs spread to other editors.
As for the scenario, I don’t see that as a hellish situation. I’ve been using vim for a while. Im actually ok at it.
Do I regret learning it? Hell yeah. Lol. But at least I got vim mode to soothe the wound a little
Emacs did not invent the mouse cursor interface.
> It was “bloated and slow”.
This comes from not understanding how emacs works. Yes, it has games, no, it is not loaded until you load it. It means nothing, it does not mean bloat.
> I think we’re just missing each other here. The best features of eMacs spread to other editors.
I think we might - it's Emacs not eMacs.
> As for the scenario, I don’t see that as a hellish situation. I’ve been using vim for a while. Im actually ok at it.
Great! I love vim. In fact I used it for 15 years before switching. I would not be using emacs as my everything if evil-mode was not a thing.
> Do I regret learning it? Hell yeah. Lol. But at least I got vim mode to soothe the wound a little
Sometimes I think the same thing.. Everytime there is no vi mode I get annoyed. I try to be open to new software, but cua-mode (or default emacs keys) is not it for me.
In the 2nd point, I’m just saying what the popular complaints were. I wasn’t trying to prove them either way. Just what the battles were about. I wasn’t there so I’m thinking like an archeologist here.
I know about the misspelling of eMacs but I’m on my phone. I don’t mean anything with it. Just too lazy to fix it.
There’s good stuff in Vim and I like it but yeah not gonna die and say “well! Glad I learned vim!”.
Live and learn. I’m still thinking what band Vim would be
The real split was whether people wanted an editor to work like an IDE or not. Everyone did. Even Vim.
I think it makes more sense they are there for those of us who know Vim but one day we’ll all die out
Emacs is a platform centered around text.
It's hard to imagine a definition of "win" that goes from roughly 50% popularity to less than 5%.
I don’t think EMacs or Vim will come back. They have revivals, I came in during one of those. This is definitely one of them.
People are always going to love it. But I think all the best ideas from that era have been taken.
I like Vim but EMacs won the editor wars