First of all: Emacs (and vim) are perfectly usable on (and originally developed for) a dumb terminal, or so-called console. This is the main difference with modern IDEs such as eclipse, and Gnome or KDE-based ones.
The key-sequences in vi (the true masterpiece) and long sequences in emacs are designed and evolved to be useful on terminals, and they definitely are.
Vim and emacs both were text editors based on original concepts and then evolved as source code editors, rather than IDEs which were created to imitate Visual studio. =)
The key-sequences in vi (the true masterpiece) and long sequences in emacs are designed and evolved to be useful on terminals, and they definitely are.
Vim and emacs both were text editors based on original concepts and then evolved as source code editors, rather than IDEs which were created to imitate Visual studio. =)