Why I use use Emacs in 2022
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torsteinkrause · 2022-07-27 19:57



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torsteinkrause · 2022-07-27 20:01

Just a wee rant after years of comments, rolling of eyes and merciless
lunch room discussions.

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F4il3d · 2022-07-27 20:43

You are not alone. I use emacs for everything. Modern IDEs are nice
but too restrictive for my taste. Emacs is like slipping into a pair
of old shoes that are comfortable and capable of tackling any terrain.
I have programmed and debugged in Assembly, C, C++, Perl, Fortran,
Lisp, Python, Lua, etc in emacs. It always has been a good efficient
tool. It is so dammed consistent that you can almost intuit something
you do not know about in emacs.  It is a joy to use and the community
is vibrant and helpful.  And it runs on everything. From an 80x20
character terminal to a supercomputer. I do grow and adapt with the
times but I do not think I will ever outgrow emacs.

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CulturMultur · 2022-07-27 21:14

I use Emacs so it is *mine* and not changing every year (month with
VSCode) by a wish of some corporation.

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[deleted] · 2022-07-27 22:36

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stoopidjonny · 2022-07-27 23:00

By the end I figured out “spade”=“speed”.

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xtifr · 2022-07-28 04:44

Just a friendly reminder: MS Word is older than Gnu Emacs! (By about
two years.) Yet nobody seems to be writing "Why I use Word in 2022".
:)

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deaddyfreddy · 2022-07-28 08:15

the problem with IDEs is they are only suitable for editing code
files, Emacs in its turn, is a universal UI to all text information in
system

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WallyMetropolis · 2022-07-28 16:13

This is a great point. I think instead of justifying why I use such
old software, I'll reframe the question entirely like this.

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belbox · 2022-08-26 13:42

Nice, but simply not true...
Emacs is from 1976 and word from 1983 according to wikipedia..

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xtifr · 2022-08-26 18:50

I didn't say "Emacs", I said "*Gnu* Emacs". The *original* TECO-based
Emacs is from circa 1976, but Gnu Emacs, which was a complete, from-
scratch rewrite, is from 1985.

The original Emacs wasn't written in C, didn't use Lisp, and didn't
run on Unix. By 1985, there were nearly a dozen Emacsen, for a variety
of OSes, with a variety of extension languages (including none). Gnu
eventually became the dominant Emacs, but there are still several
others running around.

There are word processors from before 1983 too! :)