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Jerry C.

Head of Bioinformatics and Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

Originally submitted 8/18/2021

"My go-to code editor when I SSH into a remote server"

4/5

What do you like best about GNU Emacs?

Emacs is easy to install on a Linux machine and works great as an editor when you are logged into a remote server in a command-line Terminal. Other editors such as Atom, Sublime, Eclipse and VSCode need to use an SSH tunnel for work on a remote server, which is very inconvenient and prone to connection issues. I mostly code in Python, and Emacs has nice color coding and styling for Python code. And shortcuts are great in Emacs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GNU Emacs?

The only drawback I see is some lack of support for newer languages and libraries. For example, I was trying to find a color-coding package for programming in VueJS, but could not find an appropriate one for Emacs. The community for Emacs is an older bunch, and doesn't always have support and updates for the newest frameworks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.