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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. binary132 ◴[] No.45656821[source]
the total lack of “getting it” on display here is simply flabbergasting.