It’s been years since editors started getting their packages. I would guess Emacs was late to the game actually. If you’re only ever used notepad, the manager is there to install additional features such as syntax support for new languages, refactoring tools, navigation commands and more.
Cos otherwise you’d be manually patching and eval’ing extensions every time you wanted to extend functionality.
As for explaining the joke, I refuse to – my comedy genius knows no bounds, and if it can’t be appreciated in this era of human civilization then I shall wait until the next
I don’t understand the joke, but WHY DOES A TEXT EDITOR HAVE A PACKAGE MANAGER?
It’s been years since editors started getting their packages. I would guess Emacs was late to the game actually. If you’re only ever used notepad, the manager is there to install additional features such as syntax support for new languages, refactoring tools, navigation commands and more.
Even notepad++ has plugins and themes
@mech @tetris11 other editors etc. call them plugins, but almost every larger piece of software has some way to install extensions built in
Cos otherwise you’d be manually patching and eval’ing extensions every time you wanted to extend functionality.
As for explaining the joke, I refuse to – my comedy genius knows no bounds, and if it can’t be appreciated in this era of human civilization then I shall wait until the next