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2. What is Emacs
Emacs is an text editor with a powerful emacs-lisp interpreter.
The core is written in C and is only a small part of the whole emacs. Many distrobutions ship this under the emacs-minimal name.
In addition to the small editor and interpreter at its core it has thousands of emacs-lisp scripts that shipps with it, which extends it greatly. Some functions it has are:
- Folding code
- Syntax highlighting
- Fuzzy search for commands, files and more
- Completion
- Email client (rmail & gnus)
- An IRC client, ERC
- And more
3. Why use Emacs
The main reason I use Emacs is that I have everything I need at hands reach at all times.
Do I need to write an email? M-x rmail. Do i need to check the git log? C-x v L, do I need to export the org document to word? C-c C-e o o, and a lot more.
No matter what I always have everything I need within reach, and as Emacs has all I need too I can do my daily tasks in one application.