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Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay)

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197 points hpaone | 3 comments | 14 Oct 25 20:50 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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frou_dh ◴[21 Oct 25 12:12 UTC] No.45654853[source]▶
To me the charming thing about Emacs is how introspective a program it is. This goes beyond all the documentation being built-in, and being able to redefine things on the fly. For instance, it's easy to define a keybinding that does "Take me to the source code of the command that's bound to the next keybinding I type". When you use that and land at a destination, it will probably be Elisp code, but in some cases will even be C code - it works either way.
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skeezyjefferson ◴[22 Oct 25 10:33 UTC] No.45667121[source]▶
I have never once thought Visual Studio needs some way to edit its own source code on the fly... whats the actual use case?
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1. brettermeier ◴[22 Oct 25 13:36 UTC] No.45668958[source]▶
Good question, you may have to be the ultimate power user to need this feature? What are those people doing?
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2. theflyinghorse ◴[22 Oct 25 17:46 UTC] No.45672627[source]▶
Vibing. It's a state of zen and connection to the technology that you use.
3. micik ◴[22 Oct 25 23:26 UTC] No.45676442[source]▶
anything. we're doing anything.