@icscarythings I really, REALLY didn't need like 95% of what GNU Emacs really offered. I guess it goes all the way back to that one quote: Emacs is good at everything except for editing text. It really is just mediocre as an actual text editor.
Electric mode was it's huge hit thing (basically: indention works in the way the -mode does), and it's nice in some cases... but then sometimes I want to break the rules of say, my C style syntax. Or maybe I want to work in a project that uses 3 spaces instead of 4... or GNU syntax (god bless). Unfortunately, requires a bit of work to alternate between them
Also yes, I agree with the branding alone. GNU has always been more about branding than Licensing. Licensing was always more of a way to work around the shitty legal system. GPL is more of a cult, and while I do see why the ideas of GPL exist, a lot of people still manage to work around it anyway, and/or it just does more harm than good.
I remember I used Joe with the wordstar bindings when I was a wee lad and somehow they still seem to click, just need to peep the Help pane again. No real reason why, I think i just didn't like Vi keybinds and Emacs was overwhelming at the time (I never liked Vi, personally. I am less efficient in Vi and I much prefer a mode-less environment). Wordstar keybinds are IMO a little bit nicer than Emacs, because I can still throw in any Emacs habits I developed, but Joe doesn't rely as much on sequential bindings for essentiall-er things, or rather, things that I often do. Most it uses is Ctrl-k, but a lot of commonly done things are a single keystroke, whereas with Emacs some commonly done things required pressing Ctrl-x or Ctrl-space (for marking)
All the little tiny things that I truly care about are 100% supported in Joe, mainly... to read man pages + I can pipe in any unix command i want. The config syntax is ugly, much like Vimscript; but I suppose it's because it's not designed to be heavily scripted. It even has compiling which is perfectly all I need :hapyday:, although usually I just compile straight from the term...
There'll probably be a thing or 2 of slops that I'll miss from GNU Emacs, but there are some things I won't miss: it being a fucking OS. Unfortunately I fell for the org-mode meme so that's gonna hurt. GNU Emacs feels (unironically saying this btw) like you're kind of locked down to it with things like Org-mode and GDB. I also spent a little bit of time procrastinating by editing my configs, but... with Emacs there's too much to edit and too much I want to do that it actually distracts me from getting work done
I'll still keep GNU Emacs so I can read my emails. Yeah, I don't even want to use it as a text editor any more :catCry:
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nekobitwhen i was little i used to think adult coloring books were like "wake up. smoke weed. fuck parenting" ??? or something like "i cant live without my coffee" or "boys will be boys" but when i learned later that they were just regular coloring books with a lot of lines, thats when my vision of adulthood started to change.