I've used all sorts of text editors with a shell inside them, and I can't quite fathom why you'd want to do that. What's wrong with bash running in iTerm? Then it's a first-class citizen of your desktop instead of a subprocess of a subprocess of a thing running inside another thing running in the one terminal window you're using for everything.
I've tried using vim and emacs a few times, but I can't quite get to grips with the whole modal editor thing. Feels like a whole huge learning curve just for the sake of it, getting in the way of actually getting things done.
My operating system is a perfectly good operating system, I don't need emacs for that.
On the odd occasion when I need to edit something on a remote server (this is very rare, cos ansible/puppet) I'm quite happy using nano. It has zero learning curve (no modes) and the few shortcuts you do need are marked on the bottom of the screen. Yes it's kind of featureless, but you shouldn't be editing things on your servers anyway.
I've used all sorts of text editors with a shell inside them, and I can't quite fathom why you'd want to do that. What's wrong with bash running in iTerm? Then it's a first-class citizen of your desktop instead of a subprocess of a subprocess of a thing running inside another thing running in the one terminal window you're using for everything.
I've tried using vim and emacs a few times, but I can't quite get to grips with the whole modal editor thing. Feels like a whole huge learning curve just for the sake of it, getting in the way of actually getting things done.
My operating system is a perfectly good operating system, I don't need emacs for that.
On the odd occasion when I need to edit something on a remote server (this is very rare, cos ansible/puppet) I'm quite happy using nano. It has zero learning curve (no modes) and the few shortcuts you do need are marked on the bottom of the screen. Yes it's kind of featureless, but you shouldn't be editing things on your servers anyway.