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Emacs is actually fucking incredible.
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Why aren't you using Emacs to browse /g/ anon?
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Because Windows 10 > Anything else famalam
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I just wanna edit some fucking text, why must it be so fucking bloated?
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>>53633849
It's a decent OS. It just lacks a good text editor.
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>>53633902
spacemacs

>>53633885
because text isn't usually just text. It is part of several languages with their respectives environments and REPL. The elisp tooling on emacs (which is just a glorified lisp repl btw) makes it really nice to establish a mode for such times. Now if you think another language is a better suit to be the extension mechanism that is other argument
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>>53633875
"Muh DRM"
>>53633885
its been in development since the 80's and still gets updated, what do you expect lol
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>Not using vim
Vim does one thing well: editing text
Emacs tries to be everything and it goes against the Unix philosophy
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>>53634038
>Unix
autism, GNU is not Unix, and Emacs is apart of GNU, so no shit it goes against Unix philosophy, Unix is a joke to Stallman, all he used from Unix was the style of Unix. also
>Vim
Vim is a text editor for winbabbies, everyone I know who uses Vim use Wangblows
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