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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by sandinmyjoints on Thursday February 27, 2014 @09:46AM (#7312422)
The mark ring. The kill ring.

Registers. Each kind has its own use.

Painless keyboard macros. Name, save, edit, insert a counter, make them yours.

Dired. Wdired. The find-*-dired functions.

Org-mode.

Tramp.

These are all built in. Beyond that: a major mode for pretty much any language you can think of. Packages like magit and expand-region also immediately come to mind.

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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by chetanahuja on Thursday February 27, 2014 @11:36PM (#7317263)
and it all works about the same with a GUI or over ssh in a terminal. I pity the new engineers stuck with Eclipse or whatever (muscle memory doesn't transfer).
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