Why #emacs? "Living in freedom with GNU Emacs"

>(when using more traditional tools) The user has to go to great lengths to piece together a system out of all those silos of functionality. And even with great effort and all sorts of possible hacks, the result will still leave something to be desired, as those programs do not share a common platform and do not speak the same language (figuratively and literally).

framatube.org/w/6nij8VfSXJqVvu

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protesilaos.com/codelog/2022-0

@yaglb Really enjoyed that text. Made me attempt a switch to #emacs for about a week. Maybe I was just not patient enough, but I still find the experience of editing in vim far superior, even when using evil mode and a beautiful framework (doom). So I guess I'm back to neovim, neomutt, and all of their friends. I find this setup a bit closer to the unix philosophy: tools that do one thing well, chained together. It seems to me emacs might be doing just a wee bit too much...

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@kf you might like kakoune, a terminal-only vi-clone with consistent chainable key bindings @yaglb

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