i see a bunch of people saying things like "you can do this in vim or emacs". it's true, you can do fuzzy finding and panes/tabs in an editor. but then you are in a box. anything that involves interacting with the terminal requires either a dedicated plugin or opening another nested terminal emulator (e.g. `:terminal` in vim). one of the things i get from my setup that's not mentioned in this post is that i can hit `git show HEAD` <highlight files and choose one> <tab> and that will put the file name in the command. this works for arbitrary commands, not just git, because it works by doing meta-processing on the terminal.
When you're working with a computer, you are in a some kind of a box by definition.
>interacting with the terminal requires either a dedicated plugin or opening another nested terminal emulator
This is not true, you can run any terminal command in vim's command mode like :!git show HEAD, you can autocomplete it, pipe output where you need it etc without ever getting away from the file you're currently editing. You can also use % to substitute the current open file path in the command like :!git add %
Just to be clear, although you can use emacs from a terminal, it’s not the default and not what most people do. So a terminal emulator opened in emacs isn’t really “nested”
sure. this still ties you to emacs as an editor though. the interesting part of emacs to me is the meta-programming with buffers, not the editor itself; i want to be able to plug-and-play editors and keep the meta-programming.
to be pedantic, if you're using `tmux`, you're already in a "box" and are using what amounts to a "nested terminal emulator"
Emacs and Vim are perfectly capable of taking arbitrary strings (which can be lines from the same terminal buffer that match a given regex) and putting them onto the command line of a terminal buffer. And more importantly, you can customize that whole process without writing C.
