It is a classic joke. Emacs is often a little behind competing text editors (Vim has better keybindings IMO, things like Visual studio have better IDE support, Atom text editor turns out to have better syntax highlighting, etc, etc).
So, the line of the joke goes, it must not really be a text editor because it is not very good at it and has a wild array of other capabilities. Like "M-x dunnet". Must be an OS.
Of course the reality is that Emacs just copies good ideas from other people. A pretty normal Emacs setup uses Vim keybindings, LSP and now tree-sitter to get a good experience programming.
> Of course the reality is that Emacs just copies good ideas from other people. A pretty normal Emacs setup uses Vim keybindings, LSP and now tree-sitter to get a good experience programming.
Too bad other people don't copy good ideas from Emacs. Why other text editors/processors have no equivalent of view-lossage is a mystery to me. Also, where-is, describe-key, insert-char, transpose-chars and lots of other very useful stuff...
roenxi|2 years ago
So, the line of the joke goes, it must not really be a text editor because it is not very good at it and has a wild array of other capabilities. Like "M-x dunnet". Must be an OS.
Of course the reality is that Emacs just copies good ideas from other people. A pretty normal Emacs setup uses Vim keybindings, LSP and now tree-sitter to get a good experience programming.
mbork_pl|2 years ago
Too bad other people don't copy good ideas from Emacs. Why other text editors/processors have no equivalent of view-lossage is a mystery to me. Also, where-is, describe-key, insert-char, transpose-chars and lots of other very useful stuff...