• TankieTanuki [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Is Emacs a CLI or GUI tool? Because this looks like a GUI, but I always hear it compared to vim, which is CLI.

    I've never used it, as you can tell. I just use nano like a casual.

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      It functions as both. It's got disgusting, archaic optimizations to work efficiently on VT100 terminals, but it can also run in X / Wayland with anti-aliasing and font shaping and images and whatnot. I like it because while I generally use the GTK version, I can load the same configs on a remote machine and use it through SSH.

      If you run emacs -nw it will start in "no window" mode, for use in a terminal.

    • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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      1 year ago

      Yes. There's a few different forks. Base emacs is designed for use in a terminal (or terminal window), but almost all editions are X compatible and will render their own window and simulate a terminal themselves (and support mice)