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BeetleByesterday at 5:16 PM1 replyview on HN

Unsure what you mean. When I press Enter on an image, it does load it (in Emacs).

I believe opening within Emacs should be the default - as many Emacs users aim to do everything within Emacs.

See this submission from a day ago:

https://en.andros.dev/blog/06bfd107/emacs-is-a-lispboard/


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stackghostyesterday at 6:44 PM

>I believe opening within Emacs should be the default - as many Emacs users aim to do everything within Emacs.

I believe it's actually only a very vocal, very misguided minority that tries to do everything in emacs. Emacs is objectively inferior to existing alternatives for:

- IMAP

- viewing and especially annotating PDFs

- Browsing the web

- working with LLM agents

- multiplayer text editing (crdt.el is trash)

- working with rich text documents like .docx

- working with spreadsheets

- notebook rendering (org vs md and jupyter are definitely a "worse is better" situation)

etc.

It is not sane to assume the user wants to do everything in emacs. Emacs is bad at lots of things and that's okay.

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