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Re:What is in a modern code editor? by tmtvl on Monday December 12, 2022 @06:32AM (#33953538)
Looking up docs: While you can look up docs outside the editor in your browser, it makes it much faster and easier to look up docs within your editor

Yes, being able to look up .info manuals in Emacs is so useful.

Emacs is so good at it that it has 5 different options, eshell, term, shell, vterm and eat.

6, actually: while you should never use it, Emacs has ansi-term.

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Re:What is in a modern code editor? by meain on Monday December 12, 2022 @06:46AM (#33953646)
Woops, forgot that. Let me add it to the list.
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