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Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?
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Steven Degutis |
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Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal? |
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Sat, 4 May 2013 23:17:53 -0500 |
Any time I find myself editing files on a remote server, it's because
I stupidly didn't prepare for the task properly and have to fix
something "live". This is never a planned situation, and one I should
really be avoiding rather than catering to. And in those rare times
that I still find myself editing remote files, the server usually only
has vim anyway, which gets the job done. This isn't a legitimate
reason to have terminal support in a text editor that you use on a
daily basis on your local GUI-enabled desktop.
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Steven Degutis wrote:
>> What's the use-case for having the terminal be able to act as an editor?
>> ...
>> Seems like there's no real point in supporting terminal-mode in a text
>> editor these days.
>
> I use emacs in a terminal all of the time every day. How else are you
> going to edit files while logged into a remote server?
>
> If emacs didn't support the text terminal anymore, something that it
> has done since the beginning, then it could hardly be called emacs
> anymore could it? It would then be something different. Like
> gtk-emacs or something. Which is fine. But if emacs weren't
> available to edit files would you expect we would use vi? Horrors!
>
> Bob
>
- Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?, (continued)
Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?, Jai Dayal, 2013/05/05
Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2013/05/05
Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?, XeCycle, 2013/05/05
Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?, Bob Proulx, 2013/05/05
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Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2013/05/05
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