Emacs mistakenly labelled as a terminal-only editor
appetrosyan opened this issue · 6 comments
Emacs is very explicitly a graphical application that can be run from the terminal. The usage of terminal emacs is largely discouraged.
Could you suggest a way to better address this ? In the readme we put emacs under terminal based section not to encourage the use of emacs via terminal, but to clearly distinguish between GUI-elements (like buttons, ribbons) decorated editors with editors that simply just need a big canvas to start working and they can even be started inside a terminal
Please remove it from terminal editors. It's not a terminal editor and while it is primarily used in a keyboard driven fashion, it has plenty of GUI elements to work with. If in doubt consult the official documentation, and it clearly states that emacs isn't a TUI editor.
Addressed in 2a4674b
Addressed in 2a4674b
No.
In fact, you made it worse.
Please do as I suggested: move emacs, spacemacs into the category of Graphical text editors.
if you want to fix the problem by relabelling the categories, "basic" and "advanced" would be more appropriate, but then nano becomes mislabelled.
but to clearly distinguish between GUI-elements (like buttons, ribbons) decorated editors with editors that simply just need a big canvas to start working and they can even be started inside a terminal
I may not have been clear on this, but please let me elaborate: this distinction is extremely vague and completely inappropriate for categorisation of such developer tools. All such programs can be regarded as requiring a big canvas. All are textual interface (because they edit text). A TUI/GUI distinction is far more solid, but then you only need to move two entries. Modern/Old-School is also appropriate, given that vim, emacs have a lot of historical baggage, but then kakoune is mislabelled.
Please re-open the issue.
Sorry if I misunderstand something, but reasons are explained here. #669 (comment)
Therefore this issue is not gonna be reopened