If Emacs is so great, why is there only one version?
Lisp is great, and has like 20 different versions.
If Emacs is so great, why is there only one version?
Jackson Smith
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Zachary Lopez
Emacstards, defend yourselves
Owen Collins
decades of packages and customizations. if i wanted to try a new lisp i literally install it and that's it. i can't imagine switching to some other emacs version without all the packages i use. emacs is so great that none of the clones have gained traction because people don't care
Brandon Thompson
one thing that puts me off emacs is how much it infringes upon the unix philosophy.
is there not a minimal version of emacs that only edits text, and doesn't do email and plays tetris and shit?
Connor Peterson
>xemacs
>uemacs
>jove
>edwin
ez bait, learn to read
Brandon Ward
emacs is literally the most unix philosophy program ever. it's literally just an elisp interpreter and it's great at it. the fact that people have built programs on top of that interpreter doesn't make emacs anything more than it is
Oliver Evans
microemacs is what you're looking for
Nolan Morris
>eunuchs philosophy
Go neck yourself like your buddy Uriel.
There are though. EINE, ZWEI, Climacs, etc
Nolan Reyes
If you are going to write a new Emacs you may as well just write a couple extensions to modify it to how you want it.
Kinda like a Lisp.
Usually though, you use someone else's extensions or modifications.
Kinda also like a Lisp.
Easton Gutierrez
There's been a thousand variants of emacs, some of which are still actively maintained