Eight Reasons Why Emacs is Better Than Your Current Text Editor

Alex Wulff
Geek Culture
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7 min readJul 21, 2021

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If you’re reading this article, chances are you regularly use Notepad, Visual Studio, or Sublime to write code and edit text. Here’s why you should use Emacs instead.

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Emacs is a command line text editor that you can use to accomplish practically any development-related task. If you’re not already familiar with command line editors, they are programs that…

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Alex Wulff
Geek Culture

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