The cool kids do it.

You can find many screencasts of people doing everything in terminal
and proselytising the simplicity and lack of distractions of such a work
flow.  They don't mention the lack of features, and the pitfalls.

As a result a lot of the newbie questions on stackoverflow and here are
"Why dozn't M-return work with me Emacs?" and "How comez when I can't
cut'n'paste from Emacs?".

This is frustratingly detrimental to Emacs adoption because the new user's
initial experience with Emacs is "fixing" it.


On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com> wrote:

> What's the use-case for having the terminal be able to act as an editor?
>
> For me it's rather the other way around, I use the terminal within my
> editor (eshell).
>
> Seems like there's no real point in supporting terminal-mode in a text
> editor these days.
>
> -Steven
>
>


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