I do. I use it mostly over ssh on supercomputers.. no need to forward X11 sessions and all that junk. I would say I never use emacs without the terminal. On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Le Wang wrote: > 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 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 >> >> > > > -- > Le >