GNU Emacs Reviews & Product Details

Everything can be done with the keyboard, without once using the mouse. An extensive amount of shortcuts are available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Learning emacs is a steep learning curve. It requires lots of time to get into the workflow with emacs and memorizing the shortcuts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Content recognition, full Unicode support, graphical interface, support for XDG conversions and native support for JSON parsing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Scattered repositories and configure system to integrate applications and difficult external code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Emacs can do literally anything if you're determined to push past its initial learning curve. I use mine for development, shell access, and most important, for Org Mode, an organizational add-on that I use with the Getting Things Done system to turn Emacs into my personal task organizer.

I'm always finding new uses for it, and Org Mode in particular has been a true lifesaver in terms of keeping me organized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's got an initial learning curve, and the available learning resources for Emacs are not great. Reference documentation is not the same thing as learning resources, and a lot of the time, if you want to go with vanilla Emacs, you're doing a lot of looking at ancient forum posts from days gone by.

That's why I eventually went with Spacemacs, an Emacs distribution that has helped me along considerably. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Emacs has been around forever. It is extremely extensible. Anything you can do, you can probably do in Emacs. The old joke was that Emacs had everything but the kitchen sink, so emacstool's icon was a kitchen sink. I like that it is consistent and I've been using it so long my fingers know their way around it. I can do pretty much anything anyone can do with their fancy IDEs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a little on the clunky side. You can tell it was written back in the days of the glass TTY. Sometimes it is painful to get support for your latest snazzy tool/language. You know you can, but you might have to do some hunting around and customization to get it to work/look the way you want it. It's not... polished. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's extremelly configurable, and extensible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The learning curve grows very slow in the beginning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Extensibility. You can make Emacs do almost anything. Work in any language. Use it as a markdown note-taking tool. Develop entire applications for console, gui, or web. Even plays games. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Plugin repositories could stand to be a little more consistent, and you had better get acquainted with common Lisp. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The rich functionality.

The user interface.

Ability to add custom functions to by writing scripts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing to dislike about gnu emacs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Customizability

Power

Flexibility

Configurability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The initial learning curve is high. You have to remember a lot of commands and at times will be discouraging when you are coming from an IDE like environment. You need to use key board a lot compared to vim. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It does not consume many computational resources and all the configuration is stored on just one file. Furthermore, it allows extreme customization through the Lisp language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has to be said that its graphical user interface might be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

flexible, minimal, extensive, works in terminal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes complicated, I good package management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.