> Since then it seems like editors/ides have advanced and eaten emacs’s lunch
Is that true? I know that popular editors have tons of extensions available (with VSCode leading the pack), but is any other editor as programmable and user-tweakable as Emacs? I think Atom was an attempt in that spirit, but its momentum was completely killed by VSCode.
As an example, which other app will let you link to emails, or specific locations in code, in your organizational tool?
I feel that Emacs puts the user in the driver's seat in a way that almost no other piece of modern software even comes close. The only comparable, in my mind, is the *nix/GNU ecosystem, and that's about as ancient as Emacs.
Actually, I forgot to pay homage to LightTable. It had a fantastic vision, a compelling initial demo, and showed it was possible to radically innovate in the editor landscape. IIUC, it played a role in inspiring Atom.
Pity things turned out the way they did. I sometimes feel that if the project had stuck it out for a decade with a slightly less ambitious goal, it could have really moved the computing experience forward — even if only for developers / power users.
Is that true? I know that popular editors have tons of extensions available (with VSCode leading the pack), but is any other editor as programmable and user-tweakable as Emacs? I think Atom was an attempt in that spirit, but its momentum was completely killed by VSCode.
As an example, which other app will let you link to emails, or specific locations in code, in your organizational tool?
I feel that Emacs puts the user in the driver's seat in a way that almost no other piece of modern software even comes close. The only comparable, in my mind, is the *nix/GNU ecosystem, and that's about as ancient as Emacs.
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PS: One more option that hasn't been mentioned yet is Neorg (Org+Neovim). Was on HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27802153