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Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?


From: Joost Kremers
Subject: Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?
Date: 6 May 2013 15:29:12 GMT
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Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Steven!
>
> Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> What's the use-case for having the terminal be able to act as an editor?
>
> "The" terminal?  There are several.  I run Emacs in a Linux virtual
> terminal, unless forced to use a GUI setup - e.g. for testing elisp.
>
> Why?  Because I want to run Emacs without distractions, without window
> borders, without the mouse, without faffing around with fonts, and with my
> Emacs frame filling the _whole_ screen.  As somebody else said, why use a
> graphic environment for manipulating pure text?  A GUI is a general
> unspecific mush, whereas a TUI is optimised for text.
>
> Setting up Emacs on the virtual terminal is some work, agreed;

Then why bother, if you can have a full-screen Emacs without scroll bar,
menu bar, tool bar, window borders etc. but *with* all the "ease" of
running Emacs under X?

Not that I'd be in favour of removing support for using Emacs in a
(virtual) terminal, though. I use it myself sometimes for testing Elisp
code in a VM (my 5yo computer would grind to a halt if I'd run X in a VM...)


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Joost Kremers                                   joostkremers@fastmail.fm
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