Emacs is absurdly featureful

[mtbc]

Thinking of my recent entry about how our all being at home means more access to live presentations, recently I attended a talk (given from Britain) on Emacs, the text editor that is so much more that I even use it to read and send e-mail. From the presentation, we learned, among other things, that we can set up spreadsheets (well, tables in Org mode) where, given some algebraic expression in one cell, another cell's formula can be, the integral of that expression plus this quaternion. So, yet more directions in which the original editor has been extended, though perhaps not with features that were ever plead for by Excel's focus groups.

Comments

[wpadmirer]

Yeah, I won't ever need that. (grin)

[lovelyangel]

I haven't set foot in Emacs in decades – but I was on Team Vim (having come from Vi). Anyway, I don't think I'm wired to use any of those editors anymore. If I need a text editor, I fire up BBEdit – the free version because I don't even need all the fancy features that full BBEdit provides.

[mtbc]

Emacs at least comes with a built-in tutorial, referenced on the default splash screen that at least also tells one how to quit it! (-: Yeah, I still see a ton of vim usage from others, I think I'm in the minority around here.