Last edited by Jellicent (2013-12-11 19:08:16), Oh, I forgot my favorite:  Being able to use a file system on a remote box as though it were local using a fully integrated ssh link. My might say "but a lot of that is being done by the host operating system!" That's a nice thing in some ways, but my guess is that when you try and edit, say, Erlang or something else, those big IDE's are just going to sputter and flail because they're outside their comfort zone. On a Symbolics (and TI Explorer, LMI, Xerox D-machine, etc), there is no Unix-ish "asm layer" communicating that last inch to the bare metal. The GNU Operating System. It would be slower and more code to do that all over the network. Looks about right. Forget the Linux desktop, it’s time for the Emacs desktop For a guy who uses Vim as his primary editor, switching to opposition – even temporarily – is not really an appealing prospect. Or maybe: Esc-Meta-Alt-Ctrl-Shift. And if you subscribe to the 'without a good editor' bit, then the vim emulation layer makes it as good … When configuring the font for Terminator (a terminal emulator) I find its manual is NOT clear. Just because someone calls themselves "a computer scientist" it does not make their abstractions are any less metaphysical. However, I have read several posts where people say, "Emacs is the best operating system!" I know almost nothing about EMACS, but I know you can play Tetris in it... Last edited by drcouzelis (2013-12-11 18:32:31). "Well I guess while you're writing this you aren't … Fully integrated with gdb. Whoa anyone can edit the text? Calling Emacs an OS is dubious, it certainly isn't a general purpose OS, and won't run on real hardware. Sure, some of it is, but all of it is sufficiently low level. regex replace and grep/sed do the job for me. Fully integrated with GNU autotools build system, Built in games. Still no OS. But, let me make the case that Emacs is an OS. One of the main things I wondered about Emacs is if it could be used as a Microsoft Word/Libre Writer replacement? Talks to the graphics card. Eh, the Unix principle is overrated. GNU Emacs acronym expansions Can Emacs be a shell/UI replacement? Sometimes it is the people no one can … Once you manage to grok Emacs, you'll seldom want to be anywhere else. The entire editor runs inside node-webkit, so you can have a browser window running inside your editor. BTW. One has to use it to experience the power. Currently using Awesome WM and it works pretty well for what I need. Find Operating System Type. Recursive acronym for: Emacs Makes A$$ Crack Seemingly-Good; Erroneous misuse of acronyms crashes systems Find Operating System Type. It’s free software, and one of the largest, longest running software projects still in use. This and the fact that all async processing has to be done through OS jobs (or something like that) make it unsuitable as a replacement for many kinds of app. I don't find it hard to live without auto completion and friendly refactoring wizards. It is a very good way of managing complexity, though, at the level you would write a program in assembly. EMACSBOOK: "All the power of 1976 in the palm of your hand! Fast forward 30 years. Conkeror was what tipped everything for me: Having been used to gui apps for a long time, my continued use of gui browsers kept me in some kind of limbo. It also ceased being enhanced many years ago, while elisp rolls ever onward to the point where it now includes lexical scoping. Users love Emacs because it features efficient commands for common but complex actions and for the plugins and configuration hacks that have developed around it for nearly 40 years. Each entry is added by entering a simple key combo and then searching for the reference in my BibTeX file (which can be done by author, title, etc, so it's easy). Notwithstanding that, one thing I'd love to see is an FTP client mode something like FileZilla. Emacs supports CVS, Subversion, bzr, git, hg, and other systems, but it offers a uniform interface, called VC, regardless of the version control system you are using. It encourages me to lay out ideas from the perspective of comprehension and figure out how to plan doing it later. Short for: Eighty Megs And Constantly Swapping. It is not a window manager or operating system. This sort of setup is exactly what makes me, a Vim user, think I may have made a mistake by not picking up Emacs instead. Text editors are similar to word processing programs, Shop now. Here's how to find out what operating system emacs is running on. Which is why I stopped doing that. 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