Who Needs Modern Emacs?

'Every now and again I come across some discussion on making Emacs "modern". The argument always go more or less like this - Emacs doesn't look and behave like and the world will end if we don't copy something "crucial" from it. [...] If you ask me -- there's pretty much nothing we can do that would suddenly make Emacs as popular as VS Code. But you know what -- that's perfectly fine. After all there are plenty of "modern" editors that are even less popular than Emacs, so clearly being "modern" doesn't make you popular. And there's also our "arch-nemesis" vim, that's supposedly as "dated" as Emacs, but is extremely popular.' -- source: https://it.slashdot.org/story/22/06/07/1942258 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 (office) +64 (7) 577-5304 (home office) https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/

On Wed, 8 Jun 2022 10:59:16 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'And there's also our "arch-nemesis" vim, that's supposedly as "dated" as Emacs, but is extremely popular.'
vi/vim is a text editor, Emacs is an editor. I have successfully used Emacs to edit binary files. It helps to have an editor that does not treat a newline as different from other characters: I can use the same edit/navigation commands to edit/move past them as with any other character.
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro
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Peter Reutemann