I talked to someone about the extensibility of emacs, but the person I was speaking to assumed that any IDE is just as extensible by using Plug Ins.

Without turning the conversation into a university style lecture, what is one or two simple actions I can do in emacs to show someone what separates it from other IDES.

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    11 months ago

    One of the junior coders was using vscode but with vi keybindings. He heard one of the seniors talk about their love of vi and he thought he had to learn it as well. I told him that, learning vi is handy because it is often one of the only editors you find on a freshly installed GNU/Linux system, but in the end VSCode is very capable without learning silly shortcuts. I know that, if I had to pick an IDE now I would definitely choose VSCode. I have spent so much time configuring my EMacs that it would be a waste of time to start it again.