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by distantsounds 1290 days ago
the only ignorance is from you, not realizing how much better literally any other text editor is
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> literally any other text editor

Have you tried literally every other text editor?

I switched from Vim. In Emacs, I can inline previews of LaTeX formulas in the same buffer as the one that I am editing. This is possible because Emacs has a GUI. Vim cannot do this because it runs in the terminal, and it also doesn’t seem possible to do this in gVim.

Meanwhile Emacs implements Vim’s modal editing through evil mode. So for this use case, Emacs seems to be strictly better than Vim.

Yup, those days of Joe and roses...