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[–] Ramin_HAL9001@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

"in the spirit of continuous improvement, I recently embarked on a quest for re-evaluation and potential enhancement."

Oh boy, wait until you discover that Emacs can do terminal emulation, terminal multiplexing, text editing, file management, and app launching, all configurable and scriptable with a single, powerful programming language... and allows you to record keyboard macros that run across all of the above features. You'll go down a rabbit hole from which you will never emerge.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Ramin_HAL9001@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

All it misses is a good text editor, but you can run Vim in it.

So, then it isn't missing a good text editor. Install Doom Emacs or Spacemacs instead of the usual Emacs, and you have all you need.

[–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't you even do your emails in emacs?

[–] zquestz@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe tetris is included.

[–] phundrak@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You are both correct. I also read my RSS feeds in Emacs (which includes my YouTube subscriptions), manage my knowledge database with org-roam, use Mastodon on it, and sometimes chat on IRC or matrix with Emacs.

[–] tal@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I use kbin rather then lemmy, and the kbin API isn't complete, but looks like there's lemmy support in:

https://codeberg.org/martianh/lem.el

[–] canni@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

absolute madlad

[–] zquestz@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Admire the Emacs spirit, but vim has been imprinted on my mind for decades. =)

[–] Ramin_HAL9001@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I'll just say two things: Doom Emacs or Spacemacs, and I'll just shut up now.