Tag Archives: RMF

In what has to be the silliest question of the week, Kiiwyy, over at the Emacs subreddit, asks do you use Emacs as a substitute for Word. In particular, he’s wondering if people use Emacs for class or project notes. … Continue reading →

This one’s for you Vimistas. It’s an old meme, for sure—indeed, the post is 10 years old—but still good for a laugh. I vaguely remember a couple of (non-editor) products named “Emacs” but “Vim” definitely has the cleanser market cornered. … Continue reading →

You can think of today’s post as a coda to last week’s Red Meat Friday. Unlike that post, this week’s offering isn’t really about the editor holy war. It’s about Emacs versus every other editor out there, which is a … Continue reading →

Here’s a bit of Friday Red Meat for all you Emacs partisans in the eternal editor holy war. Before you flame me, please keep in mind that I was a long time Vim user and often write approvingly of it. … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, harmanola, an Emacs user of 16 years, says that he’s recently switched from Emacs to Cursor, the AI code editor. It’s his opinion that Emacs has become unstable, that he’s tired of its “non-standard defaults”, … Continue reading →

This Irreal post on dependencies and this one on Emacs bloat discussed the idea that many Emacs users have too many packages and other capabilities enabled in their Emacs configuration files. I’ve never worried about that because, really, there’s no … Continue reading →