Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay)

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.

What? Emacs has eglot built in. It has had native grep and find stuff for decades.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Gr...

You can change the exec-path to point to your cross compiled grep tool --- or you can change the command string to your tool of choice.