alt Hacker News> Every text editor, if it survives long enough, will end up implementing a partial, bug-ridden version of Emacs.
Every text editor, including Emacs [...].
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xaldir • yesterday at 3:44 PM
No, no, no, Emacs is a pretty good operating system, it just lacks a good text editor.
Emacs has EMMS for music, reusing mpg123/mpv/ffplay and the like, but it can emulate Vim well enough too ;)
Altough now I'm using 9front, Sam and Acme. I feel myself weird not using the keyboard but at least I understood structural expressions for Sam/Acme really fast, first with 'Vis' and next under Acme. Oh, Acme can do mail and news and a bunch more... because it has I/O since the beginning, you can plug anything into it, from commands to the text buffer to sockets. Even a crude HN client if you dare.