Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm so tired of how Emacs so desperately clings onto the 80s and 90s.
>
> So many of its defaults are idiotic, so many legacy features it tries
> to support are just terrible and useless.
>
> I often wish there was a modern emacs clone that dropped all these
> legacy features.


  git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git

any git clone is a fork!


> Who ever uses a toolbar?

I never do.


> Why don't the scrollbars work like normal?

I never use them.


> Why is the undo feature so ridiculous, instead of something more sane
> like undo-tree?

There's git for that.  Seriously, who needs more than two undoes?


> Why isn't ido-mode enabled by default, and why doesn't it work on more
> completable prompts without a third party plugin?

ido-mode is unbearable, I don't use it.


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