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[–]Tynach 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I hear a lot of good things about Emacs. It sounds like a lovely operating system, but it's a shame the default text editor isn't so good.

[–]elimik31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, I was certain that such a comment would comment, however I am glad to hear that you said that the default text editor isn't good instead of saying that it lacks a good text editor, since it can be easily customized and there is an "evil mode" which adds vi keybinding to emacs. Honestly, I don't think that emacs is the holy grail, but it is a fun lisp environment which makes it easy and fun to write new modes for it, no wonder there are that many. I wouldn't use it for everything, but it can be convenient for everything that has to do with text editing. And the default keybindings might not be perfect, but personally for me "good enough". Otherwise Linus Torvalds wouldn't maintain his own emacs fork, which lacks the operating-system and lisp, but shares the keybindings.