| ▲ | mickeyp 18 hours ago | |
The knocks against Emacs feel unwarranted. It has plenty of colour; it has mouse support, even in the terminal, but not all terminals support it, so it's optional. It also runs in a GUI with, you know, image support and whatnot. You can rail against its defaults, but do not make misleading claims. | ||
| ▲ | internet_points 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Yeah, the menu bar thing just makes no sense. Here's what a completely uncustomized emacs looks like: https://i.imgur.com/0vFsd3p.png If you for whatever reason absolutely need to run it in the terminal, then you'll have to either learn that F10 toggles the menu bar, but then it still looks like a real menu bar that you can navigate with the arrows and enter: https://i.imgur.com/ETA2Qhs.png (or you can `M-x xterm-mouse-mode` to use the mouse in the terminal). (That said, I'm sure the out of the box experience with Borland was quite a bit better back in the day, if you only needed Pascal or C++ support. And emacs really could do with a better default-theme; e.g. simply changing to the built-in modus-vivendi-tinted and it looks like https://i.imgur.com/lRAWzJK.png instead. Doesn't help with the tool-bar icons from 1999 or whatever though) | ||
| ▲ | frou_dh 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Also, the set of top-level things in the menu bar is not static. So even if you cannot directly interact with it for some reason, it gives you a hint that new things are possible in particular contexts. (Same goes for the 'tool-bar' that's distinct from the menu-bar) | ||
| ▲ | rbanffy 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
I wonder if it's still possible to run Guy Steele's era EMACS. | ||
| ▲ | DonHopkins 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
My cat is named Emacs, so I take those knocks against Emacs personally. Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast [Colorized] | ||
