[HN Gopher] Emacs in Odd Places (2020)
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Emacs in Odd Places (2020)
Author : susam
Score : 81 points
Date : 2023-04-04 08:17 UTC (14 hours ago)
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| ilovecaching wrote:
| This is why I stick to a terminal based editor. You can use it
| practically anywhere with minimal resource usage. You can use it
| remotely so any machine is your workstation. You can use it on a
| machine without a GUI at all.
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| With the new AI plugins I doubt even Jet Brains will be able to
| offer much over what Vim and Emacs can provide with fugitive,
| magit, fzf, etc. providing best in class features while still
| running on actual terminals.
| goldfeld wrote:
| As regards both AI plugins as you mention, and "Emacs
| anywhere", I compiled a list of Emacs ChatGPT plugins[0] along
| with each having an easy issue/tasks for others to help linked
| below, and on the next installment of this newsletter I'm
| planning to feature among more AI plugins things like
| controlling Firefox from within Emacs (if I can reach that
| plug-in's author to get permission to feature.)
|
| 0: https://generativereview.substack.com/p/tasks-open-source-
| em...
| FullyFunctional wrote:
| I have state-of-the-art gear and I mostly do everything in the
| terminal. Why? Because I run months long sessions in tmux that
| I attach to from all sorts of places and machines, including
| whatever notebook my youngest left around or from my phone (via
| Terminus) to quickly check on something.
|
| Being able to resume exactly where I left off is more important
| to me than fancy colors and fonts (and the mouse to too slow
| and imprecise anyway).
| jrootabega wrote:
| You can sandbox it more easily, too.
| gustavorg wrote:
| I think there is no problem using an editor like VisualCode or
| Notepad++. But you should have an editor like Emacs or in my
| case VI at hand. It is a lethal weapon to solve any problem in
| inhospitable environments where speed and power are required. I
| want to believe that VI or Emacs is like that gun that James
| Bond or Jim West has up his sleeve, and at the push of a button
| it deploys to your hand in case of emergency. Subtle, fast, and
| effective in emergencies.
| _glass wrote:
| yes, so true. as an avid Emacs user, still, I love vi for
| being available everywhere and impressing people on
| production machines to adjust config files. somehow the
| muscle memory of my teenage years is still there. a weapon
| for a more noble age.
| euroclydon wrote:
| I was hoping to see an emacs macro operating a water pump or
| something.
| Forge36 wrote:
| Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25108697
| leemailll wrote:
| That ATC story is as legend as the blackbird speedcheck.
| nightfreeze wrote:
| Logseq is a very nice Org app for your phone as well.
|
| https://github.com/logseq/logseq
| nightfreeze wrote:
| Oh and there's now a native Emacs port for Android, with
| touchscreen support.
|
| https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsOnAndroid
|
| https://sourceforge.net/projects/android-ports-for-gnu-emacs...
| FullyFunctional wrote:
| The defining requirement for my first ever notebook (circa 1991)
| was that it had to be able to run the One True Emacs. That was
| met by a Toshiba T1800 w/4 MiB 386/sx @ 16 MHz, running a very
| early Slackware Linux. Wasn't powerful enough to run X (in
| practice), but having Emacs means I can be productive.
|
| It still sets the lower bar for what I consider useful, but
| indeed, 2nd best thing is a terminal into a computer running
| emacs.
| wduquette wrote:
| So happens, the "dumb terminal" he depicts as a dumb terminal is
| a VT320, one of the quintessential smart terminals. If you want a
| dumb terminal, go find a picture of an ADM 3a. (I first used
| emacs on a VT220, IIRC.)
| FullyFunctional wrote:
| I had a job where I used an ADM 3a hooked up to a Sun 3. It
| worked, but I don't miss it. A vt320 is a lot fancier.
| m463 wrote:
| I used to try installing emacs on many systems, but now I use
| tramp.
|
| It's super-easy to edit files over ssh on a remote system that
| doesn't need to have an editor installed: c-x c-f
| /remotehost:filename
|
| https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode
| Y_Y wrote:
| Likely you want to use: C-x C-f
| /ssh:remotehost:filename RET
|
| and hope that you haven't broken it by using a weird prompt on
| the other end. Emacs expects to get a standard bash shell when
| it connects over ssh.
|
| And for the record, it's 2023 and you can't just assume
| someone's keybindings. I use something more like:
| SPC f f /ssh:foo@bar:baz@quux:/etc/motd
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