A co-worker sent this

My operating system runs inside my text editor

Emacs is larger than life. Not just browser, it also has bash shell, irc clients, games and what not programming tools.

And a psychotherapist. `M-x doctor` !

My text editor is my OS. All I need now is a decent text editor :-D Looking at it this way I guess we can solve that by runnning vi in a vterm session in Emacs.

Yeah, get lost chatGPT.

There is pen.el iirc

Your coworker frequents /r/linuxmemes I [see](https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmemes/comments/zjvi45/i_dont_like_electron/) :)

>Looking at it this way I guess we can solve that by runnning vi in a vterm session in Emacs. Watch your words heretic, for evil-mode gives our OS the best editor!

Try emacs. It's a decent text editor for programmers. It can run in terminal.

My text editor even uses eight megabytes of RAM ...

(and constantly swapping)

I know it's a joke but you're perpetuating the idea that Emacs users are technologically illiterate (IE they don't know what an OS is).

I thought it was making fun of how many features we've packed into emacs over the years? Of course, most people think DE = OS, so it could (perhaps incidentally) make fun of people thinking EXWM is an "OS".

I am running Emacs The joke was that I run Vim in a vterm session running in Emacs :-D

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>evil-mode gives our OS the best editor! Blasphemy! Off with his head!

With the older clisp, basically yes

I get it. But why won't you run Emacs in your vterm session running in Emacs?

I have never have felt the jokes are in that vein. At worst I think it's sneering from the perspective of the Unix philosophy of tools doing a single job. I think it's wrong headed because Emacs is a suite of tools, not one tool.

Wow. That is so meta!

Forgive me Stallman for I have sinned. But it's a lot more comfortable, doesn't give me RSI on a laptop keyboard, and has cool functionality like typing va) in normal mode to select the parens and everything in them.

At this point, Emacs is becoming it's own DE.

Becoming? https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

I think I get it, it’s sarcasm, right ?

No, you got that wrong.

vterm isn't fast enough to use vim comfortably, unless there's some performance hack I'm missing

`(setq vterm-timer-delay nil)`

My emacs runs through gotty in the browser.

Oooh, nice

There was a time when that was a legitimate issue with Emacs. (I remember back in the early minux days, we couldn't run a full emacs becaue of the 64K bank limits) But today name a Windows OS IDE that running well in anything less than 8GB? I can only think of one, and that emacs in a WLS terminal. :-)

Yes, I remember times when Emacs felt slow an huge, and nowadays people say Emacs is small and (mostly) fast. :) So I intentionally mentioned the "8 Megabytes". :)