Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently?

Re:Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what wo... by abe-101 on Saturday October 12, 2024 @11:22PM (#41824932)

I wouldn't. I just used vim

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Re:Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what wo... by iLemming on Sunday October 13, 2024 @05:56PM (#41832018)

You could use MS Word of Photoshop if you want, we couldn't care less.

We're not talking here about a mere text editor, we're discussing a Lisp machine with level of extensibility and programmability deeply ingrained into its design, something that Vim or Sublime or any other traditional text editor can never achieve.

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