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>>953738

Antiquated and deprecated.

>>953739

>deprecated

Yes, by Neovim.

>>953747

More like deprecated by a mouse.

I think that concludes things, there is no reason to switch from using Emacs. I recently looked at what Sublime Text offers for VHDL, out of the box it just has a syntax file for what I can assume is VHDL 93. There was a free plugin someone had scraped together, but the best one is $260 USD (but with an indefinite free trial). Sublime it seems cannot even support remote editing out of the box, for that I need a paid plugin for $30 (again, indefinite trial). Supposing I'm a good guy and pay for all of this, with the $80 it is for ST3, that's $370 all together just for features that Emacs provides me free of charge! Not to mention 'freedom'.

>>953802

Peddle your shitty wares somewhere else, Richard.

Emacs ftw

>>953733 (OP)

And it's because it's current year that a lot of complaints about emacs bloat are almost cute compared to your regular word processor. Look, I prefer vi but honestly idgaf. Back in the 80s complaints about emacs being a slow bloated overengineered sack of shit carried serious weight in terms of inconvenience, but I assume that nowadays CPUs and memory are too powerful to be done in by emacs. Of course, I'm sure somewhere out there there is an emacs user (or couple thousand) proving me wrong because he decided numerous lengthy emacs scripts are the best way to parse gigabyte-sized databases or some other stupid shit.