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Well there's a key issue. I appreciate Emacs and use it over other tools wherever it's at all convenient, partly because it gives me a consistency and interlinked power. Want to follow the logs for something? I run a command in an Emacs buffer, because I can search, cut/paste, highlight text patterns, etc., all in exactly the same way I edit code or whatever.
For a file manager I open a
dired
buffer and it's all just text in the editor, and I can make the buffer writable and edit the filenames and then save those edits and I've renamed actual files... All these things work together, and work with the same controls etc..So for that reason I would choose to do something in Emacs even when it is not the best tool for that job. E.g. some code features are better (or just present), in VS Code, but Emacs with LSP gives me most of the features, and the most important ones, and the feature or polish compromise is minor enough to make it worth staying in Emacs because of all the other things that come with it too - all the things VSCode doesn't do.
So many things that people do in disparate unrelated tools, I stay in Emacs for - browsing around on a remote machine and editing files and running commands there? I never leave my local Emacs for that, never open a remote terminal, etc.. Interacting with
git
? All done frommagit
within Emacs, for the reasons above but also in this case because it's one of the best tools, perhaps the best tool, for git.