there's shell script mode. I think that one actually is built in. But yeah, there's all kinds of things. And they range from major reworkings of sort of how you interface with Emacs, to autocompletion, to spellcheckers, to syntax highlighting. It just differs from plugin to plugin. But the important thing is that they're easy to find, and they're easy to install. Previously, you really did just kind of have to hunt down code snippets and sort of paste them into your config file. These make it pretty much a no-brainer. And I mean, the idea of having an editor that's not extensible at this point is, I feel, kind of unfathomable. I just don't feel like you could live a life with an editor that's not extensible, at least for little things. I mean, similar to how a web browser without some kind of plugin system, you just can't even imagine it. So your editor shouldn't be any different. And there are lots of editors that have plugins. I mean, asym.io does, VS Codeium does, Eclipse does. You (42/54)
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