Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?

[Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com>]

Yes, any clone is a fork, but only the Privileged Few can understand
emacs' source code enough to do anything decent with it.

You can't seriously be suggesting that undo within a text editor is
not a useful feature?

I agree, ido-mode is unbearable in its default state. But with
ido-vertical-mode it's pretty great:
https://github.com/rson/ido-vertical-mode.el

On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon
<pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
> Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I'm so tired of how Emacs so desperately clings onto the 80s and 90s.
>>
>> So many of its defaults are idiotic, so many legacy features it tries
>> to support are just terrible and useless.
>>
>> I often wish there was a modern emacs clone that dropped all these
>> legacy features.
>
>
>   git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git
>
> any git clone is a fork!
>
>
>> Who ever uses a toolbar?
>
> I never do.
>
>
>> Why don't the scrollbars work like normal?
>
> I never use them.
>
>
>> Why is the undo feature so ridiculous, instead of something more sane
>> like undo-tree?
>
> There's git for that.  Seriously, who needs more than two undoes?
>
>
>> Why isn't ido-mode enabled by default, and why doesn't it work on more
>> completable prompts without a third party plugin?
>
> ido-mode is unbearable, I don't use it.
>
>
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> __Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
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