Thread 106477169

>emacs is much better and easier to work in than an average editor
>for example, to move up and down the lines you use simple Ctrl+p and Ctrl+n and to move back and forth between letters you use Ctrl+b and Ctrl+f instead of using your keyboard's arrow buttons like an idiot!
>want to zoom in? that's simple! just press Ctrl+x and then Ctrl+ or Ctrl-
>two key combinations is much faster than one, that's a known fact!
>as you can see, emacs was designed to be the most comfortable using your keyboard
Is this some sort of a generational trolling? There's no way people actually consider this good

better than hjkl

>>106477169 (OP)
It's an acquired taste.

pls be in London

>>106477169 (OP)
Emacs is retarded. But it is the very definition of elegance compared to vi.

>>106478167
Elegance doesn't make me edit code faster, which what it's suppose to do.

>>106478181
It was sarcasm bro. Users of either deserve death.

>>106478181
you can edit text just as fast with emacs
>>106478206
coward

>>106478206
Allahu akbar, brother

I use emacs because of its extensibility and customization, not necessarily because it can do stuff "faster".
In what fucking situation you're getting bottlenecked by the speed you edit text? I've been typing at at least 120wpm for the last 10 years and never once the thought of "man if I could only edit my text faster" ever crossed my mind.
As a great man once said, what is the use case?
And I'll add one more, why do you think text editing speed is a metric?

>>106477169 (OP)
Arrow keys work just fine on Emacs. You can rebind anything to do anything because it uses a lisp for customization. Some of the keybindings are odd at first, but they work pretty well. Literally all serious programs (ex: image/video editing software) have unique keybindings.

Once you get good at all the motions and stuff, you'll get that having less commonly used binds on fast 2 key combos makes sense. The default binds are well thought out, but you can swap to evil or something if you want a different set of conventions. I'm one of the few people who stick to vanilla binds and build upon them.