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by zxcvcxz 3720 days ago
First you say:

>completely different product

then call them both

>text editors

emacs and (g)vim have a gui mode.
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sghodas 3720 days ago
Yes, they're both text editors, but they're completely different classes of text editors. MS Word is also a text editor, but it would be ridiculous to fault it for not having a CLI. It's nice that Emacs and Vim have GUI modes, but I doubt they're the primary way users use those editors. Emacs/Vim and VS Code/Sublime/Atom fulfill different needs and preferences.

I'm curious about your answer to this: would you argue that MS should combine Word and VS Code into one text editor?

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gryph0n 3718 days ago
FWIW, I recall a time when Word used have a CLI. My memory fades, but I think it was either v4 or v5.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word#Origins_and_gro...

The Internet Archive seems to have a version listed on the 'Abandonware' listings.

https://archive.org/details/msdos_microsoft_word5

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