[janitha]

Not that we've beaten this dead horse enough. Anyway, a quick summary of the Reddit discussion for easy digestion.

* Brew coffee using the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, or HTCPCP http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CoffeeMode

* Vi Within Emacs using Viper mode

* Video Editing via GNEVE http://1010.co.uk/gneve.html

[likpok → janitha]

Unfortunately, there isn't a good vim frontend. IIRC Viper mode and Vile mode both do strange things.

[aidenn0 → likpok]

Indeed. I use emacs just for SLIME, and I keep running into tiny corners. I've got a .emacs that rounds some of the corners off, but it's still not perfect.

Which reminds me, if anyone knows how to get backspace to close the minibuffer when it's empty like vim does, I can smooth the most annoying corner I run into right now...

[aidenn0]

Emacs cannot solve the halting problem.

[ramanujan]

Gneve is actually quite a powerful video editor. A lot faster than click-click-click for power users.

Also with emacs' command recording facilities, it's far easier to reproduce your editing actions and keep them as scripts so that others can see what you did to go from a raw file to another intermediate file.

[j_baker]

Well, emacs is scriptable in a Turing-complete language, so it can do anything any other computer program can do. Of course, that doesn't mean it's feasible or even preferable for it to do any of those things.

[jrockway]

I am pretty sure that Reddit comment sections are just generated by an AI now. How many times has that exact thread progression occurred before?

[dilap]

Emacs cannot scroll the point off the screen.

[elbenshira]

I never got Emacs to display line numbers properly. Also, Emacs cannot heal that piercing pain my wrist felt trying to do crazy maneuvers.

[parbo → elbenshira]

(global-linum-mode 1)

[arielanddash]

emacs will never solve the halting problem.