Bruh can we make emacs, let alone cider, let alone "julia snail", more usable before we brag about achieving something? It's extremely embarrassing how sloppy the emacs experience has gotten in the last thirty years relative to other environments.

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tadfisher 5 hours ago | parent [-]

What's not usable about it?

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HexDecOctBin 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You can't scroll without moving the cursor.

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throwaway27448 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's slow and buggy and difficult to wrangle to the needs of modern text editing yea?

Look I live in emacs. I cannot explain to you why this is such a shitty experience. I assume there are random assholes around the world who are holding emacs back so they can view their email from a repl or some bullshit.

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rudhdb773b 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't think your complaints are a common experience.

I've used neovim for the last 10 years, but before that I used emacs with R for many years at work and it was great, certainly not slow.

	▲	throwaway27448 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Emacs is certainly capable of speedy editing; i don't mean to imply otherwise. But there isn't much explanation as to why emacs does things the way it does even if it makes the experience shittier.