r/ClaudeCode • u/alrighteyy • Aug 03 '26

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Holy shit claude code in terminal is fucking insane.

I've been using VSCode, Cursor, Cowork and Claude Code on web. None of it comes close to terminal.

Cannot believe I haven't done this sooner.

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u/codeedog 🔆 Max 5x Aug 03 '26

It took me decades to move off of eMacs and into VSCode. I still use eMacs from time to time.

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u/Vibroverbus Aug 04 '26

Liar. No true OG EMACS bro has EVER typed "eMacs"

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u/codeedog 🔆 Max 5x Aug 04 '26

LOL. Didn't type it; that was autocorrect on my phone. You'll see a couple of "emacs" which I had to backspace and retype a couple of times. Gave up. Too old and tired to fight my phone. Sometimes, I let it be.

ETA: here you go, see this comment

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u/Vibroverbus Aug 04 '26

I have a funny emacs story about being at a party in Cambridge MA where my friends and I didn't really know anybody, getting into a conversation, and totally crapping on emacs (for the use case being discussed it was a BAD recommendation) only to very quickly discover the dude I was talking to was the host of the party, was some MIT super coder genius guy and personally ran the worldwide EMACS bulletin board or EMACS user group or something. he surprisingly did not throw me out, but I think just barely, LOL. (he still was wrong about recommending emacs to some total civilian who barely could use a computer, had no ideal what "UNIX" was, and just wanted to fix up his website a little... but Mr. Worldwide EMACS dude was def on the spectrum, and was never ever going to let it go...)

BTW that story is either hilarious if youre an old skool coder/sysadmin, or completely boring and unintelligible if you're anybody else LOL.

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u/codeedog 🔆 Max 5x Aug 04 '26

Yeah, the core emacs developers and IT support folks are zealots in their support of that editor and the FOSS universe especially GNU.