We're getting to the point where browsers are worthy of the decades old criticism Emacs has received. They have become an OS with many fine features - simply lacking a good web browser.
>“Why are windows called frames, and tabs called windows?”<p>Windows are called frames in Emacs, yes, but it is <i>panes</i>, not tabs, that are called windows. Tabs are called buffers. (More precisely, the closest analog to a browser tab is an Emacs buffer, and a tab in VSCode is an almost-perfect analog to a buffer in Emacs.)
>Scripting Emacs in small ways is really easy and really useful<p>While I agree, for some reason I have a hard time with lisp, will have to revisit again :)<p>But I do use emacs a bit of 50% of the time for development and I find it better than the fancy code environments like M/S VScode
I wonder what an alternate timeline would look like if Microsoft has used Emacs as the foundation for Visual Studio Code? Would extensions be easier to write? Would Emacs get a lot more commands rewritten as asynchronous?
> I won’t lay this on too thick, but keeping your hands entirely on the keyboard allows for a fluency that is unmatched when you’ve sometimes got to reach for a mouse instead. And there’s additional trust I can place in Emacs knowing that it’s always a matter of finding the way to do something with the keyboard, rather than wondering if it’s possible at all.<p>Here we go again. From <a href="https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/30682/are-there-any-recent-studies-of-the-keyboard-vs-mouse-issue" rel="nofollow">https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/30682/are-there-any-r...</a> :<p>> We've done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts: — Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing. - The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.<p>> Previous research comparing methods of issuing commands found that selecting a toolbar item is faster than selecting an item from two menus with either a mouse or keyboard shortcut. Over the course of 90 trials, however, the keyboard method showed the most improvement, nearing the toolbar response time.<p>> In contrast, a more recent study [10] suggests that more complex key sequences do not have such a clear advantage over toolbar selection.<p>TL;DR: Keyboard shortcuts are faster for some actions some of the time, but using the mouse vs keyboard is mostly preference