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Yes, they're both text editors, but they're completely different classes of text editors. MS Word is also a text editor, but it would be ridiculous to fault it
by sghodas 10y ago
Yes, they're both text editors, but they're completely different classes of text editors. MS Word is also a text editor, but it would be ridiculous to fault it for not having a CLI. It's nice that Emacs and Vim have GUI modes, but I doubt they're the primary way users use those editors. Emacs/Vim and VS Code/Sublime/Atom fulfill different needs and preferences.
I'm curious about your answer to this: would you argue that MS should combine Word and VS Code into one text editor?
- gryph0n 10y agoFWIW, I recall a time when Word used have a CLI. My memory fades, but I think it was either v4 or v5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word#Origins_and_growth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word#Origins_and_gro... The Internet Archive seems to have a version listed on the 'Abandonware' listings. https://archive.org/details/msdos_microsoft_word5 https://archive.org/details/msdos_microsoft_word5