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Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay)

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billfruit ◴[] No.45653702[source]
While I still use emacs, I find that that despite the "batteries included" narrative about emacs, the things which are not included are causes of major frustration.

Such essential functionality like grep-find and LSP servers which is required for out of the box auto complete are not bundled with emacs. Most modern IDEs/editors have these functionality baked in.

If you install emacs for windows you find that grep-find doesn't work, because it depends on support from environment. A full text search should be built into the editor.

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1. kqr ◴[] No.45654657[source]
I think the mistake is looking at Emacs as an editor. It's an Emacs Lisp VM, and the editor that comes bundled with it is good, but not great. Fortunately there are many ways to improve it, and make it go beyond what other editors can.