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by TacticalCoder 535 days ago
> I wonder at which point do we call it IDE instead of text editor

The most hilarious to me is when people refer to Emacs as a "text editor". I'm not talking about the fact that Emacs shall happily display pictures (inlined in a file like in org-mode for example or in their own window), open binary files, open PDF files, manipulate files over SSH (Tramp), etc.

Heck, as a statement some made Emacs run as PID 1.

But many seem to honestly think Emacs is "notepad with bad shortcuts".