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0 pointsshakow3y ago0 comments

> Unlike VSCode, Emacs and Vim have a learning curve.

That's not the point, we were talking about plugins.

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I think that the learning curve might be in reference to installing plugins.

Installing an extension on vim (never done emacs) is something that does not just happen easily. There is no intuitive search for extensions built in, you likely have to install software that manages your plugins.

VSCode on the other hand rarely requires more than a single click through a built in interface.

The plugin ecosystem exists for command line editors, but it definitely has a learning curve

marxplank3y ago

nope, Emacs has an existing package installer and several packages in itself which make package installation easier than even VSCode or Atom

chlorion3y ago

Emacs has a built in package manager as well as several alternative external package managers! Most of the time installing a package is as simple as running "package-install" or having a "use-package" expression somewhere in the init scripts!

I personally do not use any of these package managers and instead use my systems package manager on Gentoo to manage everything. Gentoo has most of the popular projects in the ::gentoo repo under app-emacs, and packaging your own is only a few lines of bash.

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