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Emacs is getting out of hand... - Blink - 08-04-2017
We all have our text-editor preferences... But I'm gonna go ahead and say it... Emacs isn't a text editor, it's an entire overlay OS (think Windows 3.1).
Some guy uses emacs as his window manager: http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/new-window-manager.html
Actually, multiple people: https://monkey.org/~marius/emacs-as-a-tiling-window-manager.html
It has a built-in module called 'landmark'... Which is "a neural network robot that learns landmarks"
There's a bunch of built in games: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryGames
Emacs has it's own Lisp dialect... I have no idea why.
It appareantly has not 1, not 2... but 3 web browsers...
It also has a built in psychotherapist named ELIZA (This thing is older than you). Just run M-x doctor.
There's a stackexchange client for emacs (https://stackapps.com/questions/3950/sx-stack-exchange-for-emacs)
There is a lot of ways to send email from within it: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryMail
In my opinion, nano does it right: "Do one thing, but do it well."
Emacs tries to do too much, I can see someone using it as an OS over a thin layer of Linux or BSD, but... For a text editor, this is too much.
RE: Emacs is getting out of hand... - Ecks - 08-04-2017
I use nano or gedit, I don't prefer one over the other, it is just what ever I remember to open, emacs looks like a pain in the ass to me personally.
RE: Emacs is getting out of hand... - Inori - 08-05-2017
Emacs is absurd imo. All I need is syntax highlighting and basic search utilities; anything further is almost too much for a terminal editor.
RE: Emacs is getting out of hand... - Nil - 08-05-2017
That's pretty crazy, I had no idea. I think they're trying to take over the world little by little.
RE: Emacs is getting out of hand... - mothered - 08-05-2017
It's an overkill for a text editor.
No need to over-complicate matters where It's not needed.