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"Feline Herd" Offers Easier Package Management For Emacs

Posted by samzenpus on from the vim-coming-soon dept.

First time accepted submitter chris.kohlhepp writes "The Emacs editor just got consolidated package management with "Feline Herd", offering 2000+ packages under one roof. No struggle with convoluted keyboard shortcuts — only easy GUI navigation via toolbar buttons! Every conceivable programming language is handled. Cuts the Emacs learning curve to a minimum for learners."

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  1. too much package management by stenvar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This would have been great 20 years ago. But these days, I can just apt-get install Emacs packages. Of course, on some other platforms, this may still be useful, but on Linux systems with built-in package management, these extra application specific package management systems can cause version conflicts and are best avoided.

  2. Ahh, EMACS by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 4, Funny

    Truly, it would be the world's most perfect operating system, if only it had a decent text editor.

  3. Re:Yawn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    well. you can always run Vim inside of Emacs

    captcha: satisfy

  4. Re:Yawn by Coryoth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, emacs, in its glorious tolerance of even the worst free ideas, sports a Vim-equivalent mode.

    For users new to the world of UNIX editors Emacs supports the simpler Vi emulation via

    (setq global-map (make-sparse-keymap))

    which faithfully emulates a novice user's experience of vi.

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  5. EMACS SUCKS AND SO DOES YOUR MOTHER! by magic+maverick+ · · Score: 4, Funny

    VIM & VI also suck. The standard editor is, ed. Obviously. Ed. "Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity."

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  6. Ya right by Murdoch5 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm assuming to launch the GUI you need to do "CTRL + A + SHIFT + INS + X + F1 + ! + ALT + T", I don't believe Emacs has a simple learning curve in anyway shape or form, I've tried to learn / use Emacs many times over the last few years and it's never been a good go, this why I use Vim.