SVG actually is the vectorial formats that the Web uses. And, again, I am
talking about modifying an SVG graphics by editing it with a text editor (no
middle-technology). Just try to open a simple SVG file
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/SVG_example_markup_grid.svg
for
OK. Then there is (well, "will be in the far future" according to
https://github.com/jave/inkmacs) an integration of Emacs and Inkscape then.
SVG graphics are text files. Like Web pages are text files (try Ctrl+U in
Abrowser or Icecat). You can edit them with a text editor. Just try to
I see there's an Inkscape integration with Emacs
No, there is not. But Emacs can depict SVG. And it can show the XML behind
the picture so that you can edit it by hand.
You seem to need SVG edition for text (LateX)
As far as I know, LaTeX document cannot directly include SVG graphics. But
The advantage of running Emacs in a graphical frame is that you can display
images in it (I sometimes edit some SVG by hand and want to see the result:
C-c C-c) or, even more useful for whoever write documents, PDFs (I split the
screen vertically with C-x 3, have the LateX on the left, the
Maybe because it is in the "Single UNIX Specification":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification
If Emacs were installed by default, you wouldn't need to know how to use any
other editor.
You do not. You only need to know 'sudo apt-get install emacs'. ;-)
Even if I never use it, I think GEdit is a better choice for Trisquel, which
targets the mainstream public. More advanced users know
I mainly like the keybindings that are the same for several programs.
Terminals usually use Emacs' keybindings by default: C-b (one character
backward), C-f (one character forward), C-t (to transpose, i.e., swap two
characters), C-d (to delete one character), M-b (one word backward), M-f
I personally spend most of my time in a text editor: programming, writing
documents (in LaTeX), presentations (in Beamer LaTeX), etc. The time I have
spent, for 12 years ago, learning Emacs have paid off at least a thousand
time!
And you can do more with Emacs: read/write emails, visit the
The basic GNU text-processing commands (I work with large logs): less, head,
tail, cat, tr, wc, cut, paste, comm, join, sort, uniq, grep.
And GNU AWK simply is wonderful when the work cannot be simply done by piping
some of the commands above.
