Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?

[Steven Degutis]

Any time I find myself editing files on a remote server, it's because
I stupidly didn't prepare for the task properly and have to fix
something "live". This is never a planned situation, and one I should
really be avoiding rather than catering to. And in those rare times
that I still find myself editing remote files, the server usually only
has vim anyway, which gets the job done. This isn't a legitimate
reason to have terminal support in a text editor that you use on a
daily basis on your local GUI-enabled desktop.

On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Steven Degutis wrote:
>> What's the use-case for having the terminal be able to act as an editor?
>> ...
>> Seems like there's no real point in supporting terminal-mode in a text
>> editor these days.
>
> I use emacs in a terminal all of the time every day.  How else are you
> going to edit files while logged into a remote server?
>
> If emacs didn't support the text terminal anymore, something that it
> has done since the beginning, then it could hardly be called emacs
> anymore could it?  It would then be something different.  Like
> gtk-emacs or something.  Which is fine.  But if emacs weren't
> available to edit files would you expect we would use vi?  Horrors!
>
> Bob
>