/emacs/ - GNU Emacs 24.5

>>3

Emacs sucks at image manipulation.

>>4

Emacs sucks for big projects using scala and java

>>5

But Java sucks so much on its own that Emacs in the mix isn't an argument.

>>7

What does it say about the master race that it can be fully emulated and surpassed by Emacs?

http://blog.aaronbieber.com/2015/01/17/learning-to-love-emacs.html

>>8

Windows can "fully emulate" Unix.

Doesn't make Windows anything but shit.

https://www.cygwin.com/

>>9

And Linux can emulate Windows.

But vim can't emulate Emacs. So vim is the lesser editor. That's just how it is, friend.

>>10

>And Linux can emulate Windows.

Wine Is Not an Emulator. :^)

>>11

OK, an implementation. Emacs can implement vim, and vim can't implement Emacs.

You should try out Spacemacs, my friend. It's made for people like you. Perhaps you will find enlightenment. Emacs is the true Unix editor; vim is merely a pretender.

https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs

>>12

Looks cool, I'll try it.

>>15

jwz? Is that you?

>>16

No, I'm not jwz.

>>18

No.

Maybe I figured it out…it says you need Emacs 24, but Arch has in its repos XEmacs 21. (three major versions behind? that's rare with Arch)

>>21

XEmacs and Emacs are two different projects. It's kind of like comparing Chrome and Firefox version numbers. They're not related.

And when it comes to emacs, I like the archaic shit.

>>21

XEmacs is a fork of regular Emacs from 20 years ago that only a few people use anymore. It has nothing to do with X11 support, both regular Emacs and XEmacs have graphical support, the package you want is just "emacs".

And if you're ever bored enough to read one side of the history, you can find it here.

https://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html

>>24

>It has nothing to do with X11 support, both regular Emacs and XEmacs have graphical support, the package you want is just "emacs".

Oh OK it works now, thanks.

I wonder if Spacemacs would include a PR to just say in https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs#linux-distros what you just told me, since I thought it was like gvim (Vim+GTK) and vim difference.

Emacs is always hailed as an OS and often quite underrated as a text editor. After running this command, I gained a greater appreciation for emacs.

ln -s /usr/bin/vim /usr/bin/emacs

>>27

Yes, I agree. Symlinking vim to emacs is the first thing I do whenever I do a fresh install.

inb4 newfags cant samefag [cd6f1b]

>>29

My child, the editor war is between Emacs and vi.

vim is the bastard creation of an Amiga-loving moron. It has very little of the spirit of vi, and it certainly in no way is "minimal" or in line with the "Unix philosophy". It's so far behind Emacs that it's not even funny.

So your posts about vim are not appropriate to this forum.

You are of course welcome to discuss evil-mode, and other vi implementations available within Emacs. They have much more of the vi-nature than vim ever will. :)

Da fuq. I honestly hadn't been introduced to the 8ch community until they butchered /emacs/

>>33

Welcome to 8chan.

I come back and see this. Reminds me of /tech/.

>>31

tbh, nano is more popular than both now. emacs is really unstable on modern systems. it's too much bloat for an editor and broken as an ide. i filed a bug report on ctrl-s not working 6 months ago and still….NOTHING.

I'm glad i quite using emacs when i did