>GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable, self-documenting free/libre text editor and computing environment, with a Lisp interpreter at its core.
>Lisp is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive parenthesized prefix notation. There are many dialects of Lisp, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure and Emacs Lisp.
The difference is Emacs will be around for the rest of your life (like it was around before you were born) so you'll never have to learn another editor. Plus the difference in learning curve is actually very minimal
Jason Green
>learning new text editor hard happens only in emacslands
Luis Butler
I always liked /flet/ - friendly lisp and emacs thread
as the other poster said it's about time investment, and developing a new workflow around a new toolset is in fact a time investment.
Owen Perez
Me too, though /let/ is more wide-spread among lisps. But /emg/ is pretty much standard, why change?
Aaron Young
>250mbs for text editor holy shit it's bloated. is there no alternative to notepad++ i dont wanna use trannyware who shitposts politics on his release page, but windows' default notepad is too shitty to use
>the oonixer >*removes functionality from his software* >*makes it as obtuse as possible* >I'M OOOOOONIXING
Connor Anderson
I'm confused. Do you want minimal or not?
Lucas Clark
>You are using windows. wrong
Adrian Mitchell
vim faggot, emacs is God inspired and God hates idiots (ie you'll have to be happy with the devil editor vi-vi-vi). Thanks a lot exactly what I was looking for.