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Re:A new blog dedicated to Emacs by jlongster on Friday March 29, 2013 @11:09AM (#5461106)
Regarding sublime's API, can you split windows? Invoke subprocesses, and create REPLs?

Genuinely curious, but I think you can do a lot more with Emacs' APIs, and modify core parts of the editor since most of it is written in ELisp and you can easily swap out functions.

Re:A new blog dedicated to Emacs by josh-j on Friday March 29, 2013 @12:23PM (#5461455)
Yes, you can do all of those things with sublime's API (https://github.com/wuub/SublimeREPL, https://github.com/SublimeText/Origami). Yes, emacs is more extensible, but not where it matters, really. I.e., I don't think you're going to see any cool feature made with elisp that can't be ported to sublime.
Re:A new blog dedicated to Emacs by jlongster on Friday March 29, 2013 @03:20PM (#5462510)
Ok, that's pretty cool. Still doesn't seem as supported by the core APIs though. In Emacs I can run a REPL and attach it to any process with a few lines of code.

I love Sublime Text, but I would argue that Emacs is more extensible in all sorts of places where it really matters.

Re:A new blog dedicated to Emacs by zosima on Sunday March 31, 2013 @07:09AM (#5468358)
You can probably add every single feature in emacs to sublime. The 30 earth-years and many, many man-years of features, additions and smoothing of interactions that has gone into emacs, will however take quite some time to come to par with.

See e.g. tramp, org-mode, the vc-modes, gnus, magit, smart indenting etc.

martinced: you have been hell-banned for some, to me, completely opaque reason.

Re:A new blog dedicated to Emacs by xxpor on Friday March 29, 2013 @06:06PM (#5463288)
TRAMP. The sublime equivalent is terrible.