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0 pointsbluejekyll9y ago0 comments

I think you more mean, "I'm not an 'Emacs is my Operating System' person".

There are many people who use Emacs as their OS, its never been appealing to me, because I like the richness of other tools.

There is a question though, are OSes doing enough to make the integrated experience like Emacs something that's done system wide? I think Apple comes close to providing the set of things you want, but it still feels tacked onto the top, rather than more deeply integrated.

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tptacek9y ago

I'm sold on Magit. If I had more interfaces that worked like Magit and were as well thought out, I'd use them, even if I had pretty OSX programs to use in their place.

alexott9y ago

Richness of other tools are OK if you use one OS. But if you switch between several of them, then Emacs tools more handy...

I'm using Windows & Linux at work, and Mac OS X at home, and Emacs provides uniform interface for most of my tasks, except web browsing and multimedia...

ncouture9y ago

It's a great question and a comparison I try to exercise regularly against different Emacs components I use.

From someone who never touched OS X, how would you compare its system-wide software integration with Emacs?

bluejekyllOP9y ago

I think Apple calls these *Detectors:

https://developer.apple.com/reference/foundation/nsdatadetec...

They essentially act as regexes that when match allow for an external application to be called with that text sent as a parameter. This allows for dates to be clickable and create and event in a calendar for example.

They also do a good job of taking phone numbers from emails and when an unknown call comes in suggesting that it might be the person who included that in an email.

These features generally work well in their apps, but I think there's less support for third parties to create custom options (though I haven't actually tried so not sure).

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