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ams6110 · 2017-10-18 07:46:05

Yes, but it doesn't matter because emacs can do anything worth doing.

AzzieElbab | karma 1950 | avg karma 1.32 · | 2018-12-06 06:23:16

Not at all. Emacs works as a hobby but unfortunately lost its practicality

daly | karma 1792 | avg karma 1.93 · | 2017-12-10 14:17:45+00:00

Nope. Emacs lets you do one thing well: Use a computer.

mundanevoice | karma 138 | avg karma 0.87 · | 2016-02-15 11:49:09+00:00

True, But they also do much more things than Emacs does.

allarm | karma 317 | avg karma 0.61 · | 2023-06-02 01:30:00

Obviously, but Emacs is (un)fortunately not for everyone.

j_baker | karma 14990 | avg karma 4.45 · | 2009-12-25 15:12:26

Well, emacs is scriptable in a Turing-complete language, so it can do anything any other computer program can do. Of course, that doesn't mean it's feasible or even preferable for it to do any of those things.

adamskiftw | karma 3 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2020-02-28 14:50:30+00:00

The same could be said for Emacs.

ertdfgcb | karma 230 | avg karma 2.21 · | 2014-04-02 17:33:18

That's because emacs can already do anything, if you're willing to learn how. Still though, it's not a very useful thing to say.

chetanahuja | karma 2496 | avg karma 2.65 · | 2017-10-26 12:42:40+00:00

Yes. Emacs has the wonderful property of one time investment in time and learning curve that pays off over years to do all sorts of code and non-code editing.

coldtea | karma 86593 | avg karma 2.38 · | 2022-10-15 16:33:53

It's not the important part of Emacs for everybody though.

NullPrefix | karma 2283 | avg karma 1.49 · | 2021-04-20 17:09:42+00:00

Yeah, but Emacs isn't what you call "most text editors"

kleiba | karma 8953 | avg karma 3.49 · | 2021-03-30 10:11:42+00:00

Sure, but why would anyone not use Emacs?!

otabdeveloper4 | karma 2720 | avg karma 1.13 · | 2023-11-17 09:14:52

Emacs is just a text editor. And that's okay.

krupan | karma 2550 | avg karma 2.15 · | 2015-04-30 18:53:57+00:00

Sure, but I don't use emacs exclusively (as often as that joke is leveled at emacs users, nobody really does that).

yangyang | karma 1556 | avg karma 4.62 · | 2009-10-26 12:30:47+00:00

Indeed. But it's not like using Emacs on any other platform.

Filligree | karma 7814 | avg karma 2.44 · | 2020-02-02 18:16:15+00:00

Fair. I was talking specifically about emacs.

thotsBgone | karma 80 | avg karma 0.51 · | 2021-01-07 13:41:18

Only because much of what emacs does is cumbersome or impossible as regular software.

nickysielicki | karma 8364 | avg karma 4.45 · | 2015-04-17 06:33:01

Yes, because emacs is known for being a lightweight text editor without excessive bloat around it.

Philipp__ | karma 1845 | avg karma 4.83 · | 2017-03-23 11:15:56

Not true. Big chunk of Emacs is written in C.

perihelions | karma 28273 | avg karma 8.36 · | 2022-04-23 19:19:18

Sure: if you don't spend thousands of hours editing text files, learning emacs would be an expensive investment. It's a tool for the right use-case.